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 …

Over the last two decades, considerable scientific and technological efforts have been
devoted to developing tactile sensing based on a variety of transducing mechanisms, with …

Human-like tactile perception is critical for promoting robotic intelligence. However,
reproducing tangential “sliding” perception of human skin is still struggling. Inspired by the …

This paper reviews the state of the art in piezoelectric energy harvesting. It presents the
basics of piezoelectricity and discusses materials choice. The work places emphasis on …

Restoration of touch after hand amputation is a desirable feature of ideal prostheses. Here,
we show that texture discrimination can be artificially provided in human subjects by …

In order to endow robots with human-like abilities to characterize and identify objects, they
must be provided with tactile sensors and intelligent algorithms to select, control, and …

During social interaction humans extract important information from tactile stimuli that
enriches their understanding of the interaction. This process depends, however, not only on …

Flexible electronics has huge potential to bring revolution in robotics and prosthetics as well
as to bring about the next big evolution in electronics industry. In robotics and related …

To realize a hyperconnected smart society with high productivity, advances in flexible
sensing technology are highly needed. Nowadays, flexible sensing technology has …

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 …