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 ...

Tactile robots typically use dense arrays of sensors to detect pressure and texture. Most most robotic sensors today are ...

Tactile mechanoreceptors are essential for environmental interaction and movement. Traditional tactile sensors in wearables and robotics often fall short, especially in restoring touch in cases of ...

Scientists have developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile sensor that is small, thin, highly flexible and durable. Simple and cost-effective to produce, this novel device is very suitable ...

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

Touch is the sense that brings us into direct contact with reality, revealing shape, texture, and resistance. Designing soft sensors to mimic biological fingertips facilitates natural haptic ...

(Nanowerk News) Flexible tactile sensor has great potential in the fields of electronic skin, intelligent robot, wearable and implantable physiological monitoring and treatment. In most previous ...

• Thin-film force sensors can be super thin and created in a range of shapes and sizes. • Resistive thin-film sensors can be turned to work over a range of forces depending on the drive levels ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Our sense of touch connects us to the world around us and is an integral part of how we experience things, both physically and emotionally. Human skin is a sensitive detector of ...

A newly developed thin, flexible magnetic sensor could heighten human perception, and it's pliable enough to be crumpled and scrunched while retaining functionality. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...