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 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 ...

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.

The development of flexible pressure sensors has various potential applications in soft robotics, wearable electronics, and artificial electronic skins. Microfluidic tactile diaphragm pressure sensor.

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 ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GelSight, a pioneer in tactile imaging and sensing technology, today announced a partnership with Meta AI to commercially manufacture the DIGIT tactile sensor and ...