Grasping, carrying and placing of objects are the fundamental capabilities and common
operations for robots and robotic manipulators. Grippers are the most essential components …

Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

A nociceptor is a critical and special receptor of a sensory neuron that is able to detect
noxious stimulus and provide a rapid warning to the central nervous system to start the …

Printing sensors and electronics over flexible substrates are an area of significant interest
due to low-cost fabrication and possibility of obtaining multifunctional electronics over large …

Abstract Poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, and its copolymers are the family of polymers with
the highest dielectric constant and electroactive response, including piezoelectric …

Flexible electronics has significantly advanced over the last few years, as devices and
circuits from nanoscale structures to printed thin films have started to appear …

Polymer based MEMS and microfluidic devices have the advantages of mechanical
flexibility, lower fabrication cost and faster processing over silicon based ones. Also, many …

A wide variety of tactile (touch) sensors exist today for robotics and related applications.
They make use of various transduction methods, smart materials and engineered structures …

Temperature sensing is an important parameter needed to be measured by the eSkin during
the physical interaction of robots with real-world objects. Yet, most of the work on sensors in …

With the current evolution in the artificial intelligence technology, more biomimetic functions
are essential to execute increasingly complicated tasks and respond to challenging work …