Given the importance of affective touch in human interactions, technology designers are
increasingly attempting to bring this modality to the core of interactive technology. Advances …

Robotic hands have long strived to reach the performance of human hands. The physical
complexity and extraordinary capabilities of the human hand, in terms of sensing, actuation …

The increasing demand for grasping diverse objects in unstructured environments poses
severe challenges to the existing soft/rigid robotic fingers due to the issues in balancing …

This paper presents a direct and straightforward approach for deriving the kinetic equations
of the planar mechanisms comprising multiple kinematic closed loops. What distinguishes …

In this study, cooperative healthcare sensing robots that closely monitor and evaluate the
patients' muscle functions through gait analysis and electromyography (EMG) are …

Intelligent control of a prosthetic hand is the core to realize accurate grasping. The traditional
sensors inside the hand or finger can only give indirect information regarding the events …

机器人多指灵巧手是一种高度灵活, 复杂的末端执行器, 因其能够模仿人手的各种灵巧抓持和
复杂操作能力, 半个多世纪以来得到持续的研发投入和广泛关注, 备受社会各界期待 …

Soft robotics have broken the rigid wall of interaction between humans and robots due to
their own definition and manufacturing principles, allowing robotic systems to adapt to …

The compliance and manipulability are the crucial properties for prosthetic hands design,
especially considering both the usefulness and versatility. This study presents a novel …

Numerous algorithms of grasping and manipulation have been introduced to manipulate an
object via the applied soft-fingered uses. A soft fingertip-like human skin was first developed …