Haptic perception, mechanics, and material technologies for virtual reality

S Biswas, Y Visell - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging virtual and augmented reality technologies can transform human activities in
myriad domains, lending tangible, embodied form to digital data, services, and information …

A soft thumb-sized vision-based sensor with accurate all-round force perception

H Sun, KJ Kuchenbecker, G Martius - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022 - nature.com
Vision-based haptic sensors have emerged as a promising approach to robotic touch due to
affordable high-resolution cameras and successful computer vision techniques; however …

Touch IoT enabled by wireless self-sensing and haptic-reproducing electronic skin

D Li, J Zhou, K Yao, S Liu, J He, J Su, Q Qu, Y Gao… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Tactile sensations are mainly transmitted to each other by physical touch. Wireless touch
perception could be a revolution for us to interact with the world. Here, we report a wireless …

A flexible triboelectric tactile sensor for simultaneous material and texture recognition

Z Song, J Yin, Z Wang, C Lu, Z Yang, Z Zhao, Z Lin… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Electronic skin with tactile perception enables intelligent robots and prostheses to perform
dexterous manipulation and natural interaction with the human and surroundings. However …

The interaction between motion and texture in the sense of touch

CP Ryan, GC Bettelani, S Ciotti… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Besides providing information on elementary properties of objects, like texture, roughness,
and softness, the sense of touch is also important in building a representation of object …

Shear shock waves mediate haptic holography via focused ultrasound

G Reardon, B Dandu, Y Shao, Y Visell - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Emerging holographic haptic interfaces focus ultrasound in air to enable their users to touch,
feel, and manipulate three-dimensional virtual objects. However, current holographic haptic …

Sensing, actuating, and interacting through passive body dynamics: A framework for soft robotic hand design

K Gilday, J Hughes, F Iida - Soft Robotics, 2023 - liebertpub.com
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 …

Population coding strategies in human tactile afferents

G Corniani, MA Casal, S Panzeri… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Sensory information is conveyed by populations of neurons, and coding strategies cannot
always be deduced when considering individual neurons. Moreover, information coding …

Malleability of the cortical hand map following a finger nerve block

DB Wesselink, ZB Sanders, LR Edmondson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Electrophysiological studies in monkeys show that finger amputation triggers local
remapping within the deprived primary somatosensory cortex (S1). Human neuroimaging …

Efficient tactile encoding of object slippage

L Willemet, N Huloux, M Wiertlewski - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
When grasping objects, we rely on our sense of touch to adjust our grip and react against
external perturbations. Less than 200 ms after an unexpected event, the sensorimotor …