Robots are becoming increasingly capable in vision and movement, yet touch remains one of their major weaknesses. Now, researchers have developed a miniature tactile sensor that could give robots ...

A new approach to simulating biologically inspired robotics can cut the design and training of tactile robots from eighteen ...

A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures. The ...

One of the main strengths of capacitive tactile sensing technology is its ability to help people access information that would otherwise be impossible to capture. Consider, for example, a ...

A flexible foam sensor built from silver selenide detects temperature and pressure simultaneously, enabling a robotic gripper ...

Innovative piezoelectric and triboelectric manufacturing enhances tactile sensors, enabling sensitivity, flexibility, and efficiency for robotics, wearables, and interactive systems. Piezoelectric and ...

Fast and accurate A tactile sensor capable of reading braille could enable the creation of smart readers that convert braille to speech or text, helping to make braille more accessible and widespread.

Researchers developed a universal tactile imaging technology for pressure distribution measurement using a coupled conductor pair. An image processing approach based on tomography was then used to ...