Digestive diseases are a major burden for society and healthcare systems, and with an
aging population, the importance of their effective management will become critical …

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 …

When a tool is tapped on or dragged over an object surface, vibrations are induced in the
tool, which can be captured using acceleration sensors. The tool-surface interaction …

Touch is one most of the important aspects of human life. Nearly all interactions, when
broken down, involve touch in one form or another. Recent advances in technology …

In order to endow robots with human-like tactile sensory abilities, they must be provided with
tactile sensors and intelligent algorithms to select and control useful exploratory movements …

This paper intends to provide a critical review of the literature on the technological issues on
control and sensorization of hand prostheses interfacing with the Peripheral Nervous …

To perform useful tasks in everyday human environments, robots must be able to both
understand and communicate the sensations they experience during haptic interactions with …

This paper reviews the state of the art of artificial tactile sensing, with a particular focus on
bio-hybrid and fully-biological approaches. To this aim, the study of physiology of the human …

In this paper, we propose a set of novel tactile descriptors to enable robotic systems to
extract robust tactile information during tactile object explorations, regardless of the number …

The human hand is capable of performing complex and useful tasks using an effective
integration of mechanisms, sensors, actuators and control functions, and at the same time is …