Recent development of flexible tactile sensors and their applications

TD Nguyen, JS Lee - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of society in recent decades, the wearable sensor has attracted
attention for motion-based health care and artificial applications. However, there are still …

Integrated Actuation and Sensing: Toward Intelligent Soft Robots

S Zhou, Y Li, Q Wang, Z Lyu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2024 - spj.science.org
Soft robotics has received substantial attention due to its remarkable deformability, making it
well-suited for a wide range of applications in complex environments, such as medicine …

Human augmentation: Past, present and future

R Raisamo, I Rakkolainen, P Majaranta… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Human augmentation is a field of research that aims to enhance human abilities through
medicine or technology. This has historically been achieved by consuming chemical …

A highly compressible and stretchable carbon spring for smart vibration and magnetism sensors

HL Gao, ZY Wang, C Cui, JZ Bao, YB Zhu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Porous carbon materials demonstrate extensive applications for their attractive
characteristics. Mechanical flexibility is an essential property guaranteeing their durability …

Recent Progress on the Development of Magnetically‐Responsive Micropillars: Actuation, Fabrication, and Applications

K Ni, Z Wang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive micro‐pillared structures can perform complex and precise tasks at the
microscale through dynamic and reversible deformation of the pillars in response to external …

Bioinspired magnetic cilia: from materials to applications

S Park, G Choi, M Kang, W Kim, J Kim… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
Microscale and nanoscale cilia are ubiquitous in natural systems where they serve diverse
biological functions. Bioinspired artificial magnetic cilia have emerged as a highly promising …

Recent progress of biomimetic tactile sensing technology based on magnetic sensors

J Man, G Chen, J Chen - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the past two decades, biomimetic tactile sensing technology has been a hot spot in
academia. It has prospective applications in many fields such as medical treatment, health …

A tactile and airflow motion sensor based on flexible double-layer magnetic cilia

J Man, J Zhang, G Chen, N Xue, J Chen - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
Inspired by the concept of bionics, a tactile and airflow motion sensor based on flexible
double-layer magnetic cilia is developed, showing extremely high sensitivity in both force …

Microfluidic applications of artificial cilia: recent progress, demonstration, and future perspectives

V Sahadevan, B Panigrahi, CY Chen - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Artificial cilia-based microfluidics is a promising alternative in lab-on-a-chip applications
which provides an efficient way to manipulate fluid flow in a microfluidic environment with …

Tailoring flexible arrays for artificial cilia actuators

X Zhang, J Guo, X Fu, D Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial cilia actuators are described as responsive and actuatable cilia‐structured arrays
that are mainly made of flexible polymers. Over the past few decades, researchers have …