Over the past few decades the increased level of public awareness concerning healthcare,
physical activities, safety and environmental sensing has created an emerging need for …

In the past few years a new scenario for robot-based applications has emerged. Service and
mobile robots have opened new market niches. Also, new frameworks for shop-floor robot …

Assistive and rehabilitation devices are a promising and challenging field of recent robotics
research. Motivated by societal needs such as aging populations, such devices can support …

The possibility for humans to interact with physical or virtual systems using gestures has
been vastly explored by researchers and designers in the last 20 years to provide new and …

Space-based manipulators have traditionally been tasked with robotic on-orbit servicing or
assembly functions, but active debris removal has become a more urgent application. We …

Robots operating in unstructured environments must be capable of safely handling
unexpected collisions with objects existing in the surrounding area, possibly without …

This review aims to discuss the inkjet printing technique as a fabrication method for the
development of large-area tactile sensors. The paper focuses on the manufacturing …

This manuscript is the result of six years of research conducted between 2011 and 2017 at
the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The …

Articulated and flexible objects constitute a challenge for robot manipulation tasks but are
present in different real-world settings, including home and industrial environments. Current …

Using the iCub humanoid robot with an artificial pressure-sensitive skin, we investigate how
representations of the whole skin surface resembling those found in primate primary …