Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety
embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable materials capable of shape …

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 …

Electronic skins are essential for real-time health monitoring and tactile perception in robots.
Although the use of soft elastomers and microstructures have improved the sensitivity 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 …

In this paper, we present an application of machine learning to distinguish between different
materials based on their surface texture. Such a system can be used for the estimation of …

This paper proposes a method for interactive surface recognition and surface categorization
by a humanoid robot using a vibrotactile sensory modality. The robot was equipped with an …

Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Information about vibrating objects can be obtained by vibration measurements.
Piezoelectric sensors made by piezoelectric ceramics, quartz, or organic piezoelectric …

Recognizing grasped objects with tactile sensors is beneficial in many situations, as other
sensor information like vision is not always reliable. In this paper, we aim for multimodal …

Humans perceive the world by interacting with objects, which often happens in a dynamic
way. For example, a human would shake a bottle to guess its content. However, it remains a …