Robot-grade encoders and force sensors
The senses of a robot: what tells it where its joint is and how hard it is pushing.
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- A Flexible Thin‐Film Tactile Sensor for Robust Force and Position Sensing Under Extensive Deformations
ABSTRACT Electronic skins capable of precise tactile perception under large mechanical deformations are critical for the advancement of soft robotics and wearable interfaces. However, achieving force and position perception in ultrathin flexible sensors while maintaining stable…
Harbin Institute of TechnologyHeilongjiang UniversityState Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems
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- The Venus Flytrap Inspired Strategy for High-Sensitivity Omnidirectional Tactile Hair
Abstract Tactile sensors are essential for human–machine interfaces, robotics, and health monitoring; however, they suffer from critical limitations, including stress dissipation, restricted omnidirectional sensitivity, and fatigue failure. Inspired by the stress localization…
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- TACROSS: An Efficient and Low-Cost Scalable Human Touch System Across Heterogeneous Tactile Sensors for Dexterous Robot Learning
Collecting tactile demonstrations on robots is costly and slow, motivating the use of lower-cost human tactile gloves for scalable data collection. However, human capacitive/piezoresistive gloves and robotic tactile sensors differ fundamentally in transduction principle, sensor…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- A Minimal Optical-Flow Representation for Vision-Based Tactile Rotation Classification in Robotic Manipulation Across Gravity Domains
Vision-based tactile sensors provide rich contact information, but processing high-resolution images can be costly for resource-constrained platforms such as space robots. This work investigates whether a compact representation of tactile motion can classify object rotation…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- MagCilia: A Compact Magnetociliary Tactile Sensor with 3D Force Sensing for Robotic Contact Perception and Grasping Feedback
Robotic grasping and surface exploration benefit from simultaneous measurement of normal and tangential forces and from surface information obtained through contact. Here, we present a compact magnetociliary tactile sensor (MagCilia) that combines a flexible magnetic-cilia…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- Time-Frequency Analysis of Arterial Pulse Signals of Cardiovascular Disease Patients Measured by a Microfluidic-Based Tactile Sensor
This dissertation presents a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) based time–frequency analysis framework that can simultaneously extract a comprehensive set of cardiovascular autonomic indices from arterial pulse wave recordings obtained at rest and post-exercise, supporting…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- Hall Effect-Based Tactile Force Detection Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Robotic minimally invasive surgery has revolutionized surgical practice. However, as the surgeons are mechanically separated from the surgical tools, loss of tactile feedback occurs. We present a compact force sensor with three, millimeter scale sensing elements (taxels) that can…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- TouchScale: 500 Hours of Human Vision and Touch for Visual-Tactile Learning
Large-scale egocentric human interaction data is becoming an important source of physical supervision for embodied learning, yet video alone leaves the contact and pressure that characterize physical interaction unrecorded. Recent visual-tactile datasets provide this missing…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- Tactile Reconstruction of Contact Task Frames and Forces for Hybrid Force/Motion Control - Tactile Dataset
📄 If you use this dataset, please cite the paper below, not this Zenodo record. Paper: A. Rapuano, S. Orelli, B. Bazzana, A. Franchi, and A. De Luca, "Tactile Reconstruction of Contact Task Frames and Forces for Hybrid Force/Motion Control," arXiv:2610.10020, 2026. arXiv…
Sapienza University of RomeUniversity of Twente
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- Temporal Visuo-Tactile Learning for Dexterous Grasp Stability
Humans can grasp everyday objects with almost perfect success rates using fingertip tactile feedback, yet much of the robotic grasping literature emphasizes vision-based grasp selection with parallel grippers. In this work, we systematically investigate how high-resolution…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- Tactile Reconstruction of Contact Task Frames and Forces for Hybrid Force/Motion Control
Hybrid force/motion control requires knowledge of the interaction force and of a task frame defining the force- and motion-controlled directions. These quantities are usually obtained from force/torque sensing or model-based residuals, often assuming also a nominal environment…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- PhysTacGen: Physics-Aware Visual-Tactile Sensor Image Generation
Realistic physical interaction is a cornerstone of embodied intelligence, yet collecting paired visual--tactile data remains costly. Visual-to-tactile synthesis offers a promising approach to augmenting such data, but learning this mapping is complicated by the gap between visual…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- Pressure-induced mode transition and physical model for a suspended hybrid tactile sensor
Flexible hybrid capacitive-piezoresistive tactile sensors face fundamental challenges in understanding regime transition physics. Here, we reveal and model a pressure-induced capacitive to piezoresistive transition in a suspended PEDOT:PSS/LIG/PDMS tactile element. By combining…
Purdue University West LafayetteCare IndiaIndian Institute of Technology Delhi
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- Nanocomposite‐Enhanced Iontronic Tactile Sensor With High Sensitivity and Wide‐Range Linearity for Underwater Robotic Manipulation
ABSTRACT Hydrostatic preload increases response nonlinearity and limits weak‐force detection in underwater tactile sensing. Here, we present a nanocomposite‐enhanced iontronic tactile sensor (NeITS) that combines high sensitivity with wide‐range linearity through a coupled…
National University of Defense Technology
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- Distributed Cascade Force Control of Soft-Tactile-Based Multi-robot System for Object Transportation
In this paper, we present a distributed cascade force control system (DCFC) for multiple robots with the aim of pushing a rigid object towards a desired moving target without their inter-robot communication. These mobile robots are equipped with 360-degree vision-based soft…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- Robot Learning with Visual Predicted Force
Force-aware manipulation typically relies on specialized force or tactile sensors. We show that force-aware manipulation can instead be achieved through visual force prediction from the deformation of a compliant Fin Ray gripper. Our approach trains two models. First, we train a…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- A Semi-Enclosed Flux-Focusing Hall-Based Tactile Sensor
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- SoTa: Soft Tactile Skins for Dexterous Manipulation
A growing body of work suggests that tactile sensing gives robot policies contact information that complements vision in dexterous manipulation. However, visuo-tactile robot data remains scarce: dexterous demonstrations require teleoperating robots, which limits dataset scale…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- A flexible dual‐gate thin‐film transistor‐based tactile sensor array with polarity‐aware encoding for neuromorphic recognition
Abstract Flexible tactile sensing is pivotal for bridging the physical and digital worlds in embodied intelligence, enabling nuanced contact awareness for robotic manipulation and health monitoring. While piezoelectric sensors offer compelling advantages such as self‐powered…
Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityUniversity of Hong Kong
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- Photonic-computing error correction through optical encoder and decoder calibrations
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- Recent Advances in P(VDF-TrFE)-Based Piezoelectric-Pyroelectric coupled Sensors for Robotic Tactile Perception
Flexible tactile sensors capable of real-time detection of pressure, strain, temperature, and slip are important for enabling robots to achieve stable object grasping and manipulation through human skin-like tactile perception. Among various sensing technologies, self-powered…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- The Impact of Lattice Structure and Skin on Performance of Magnetic Tactile Sensors
One way to give robots a sense of touch is a magnetic tactile sensor: a magnet sits inside a soft skin above a Hall-effect sensor, and pressing the skin moves the magnet and changes the field the sensor reads. Most studies change the magnet, sensor, and skin together, so the…
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- A robust single-sensing-element tactile sensor for concurrent pressure and tackiness detection with real-time signal decoupling capability
Integrating tackiness sensation into the artificial skin of humanoid robots significantly enhances their cognitive and operational capabilities. However existing tactile sensors face challenges in decoupling of the multimodal signal and stability. Here we present a surface-soft…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation
Soft robots and tactile sensors have demonstrated great potential in delicate manipulation tasks. Soft pneumatic robots enable safe contact through compliance, and vision-based tactile sensors offer high-resolution touch perception. However, learning tactile manipulation with…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDFalso at arxiv.org
- Potentials and limitations of RoboSkin: a MEMS pressure sensor based tactile sensing solution
Abstract Tactile sensing has become a key enabling technology for robotic manipulation by providing robots with information about physical interactions, including contact, force, slip, and object properties. Among the various tactile sensing approaches, RoboSkin employs…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- Tactile Perception through Fluid-Solid Interaction
Soft tactile sensors elevate robotic touch through enhanced flexibility and adaptability, yet most existing designs depend on embedded electronics that are susceptible to interference and environmental limitations. In this work, we leverage fluid-solid interactions to develop a…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- Design of a multichannel data acquisition system for SGCMG support force sensor
To address the multi-channel synchronization, and high dynamic bandwidth requirements in SGCMG support force measurement, this paper presents an FPGA-based 8-channel data acquisition system. The aim is to improve the acquisition capability for dynamic support force signals and…
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- TacGooseBumps (TacGB): Retrofitting Normal-Only Tactile Sensors with Shear Encoding for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation
Contact-rich policies often fail because distinct physical states look alike yet require different actions. Cameras may not reveal whether a connector is aligned or fully seated, while many normal-only tactile sensors can miss the tangential interactions perpendicular to the…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- Triboelectric Topological Ion Effect for Highly Sensitive Tactile Sensing
Abstract With the rapid development of flexible electronics and intelligent robotics, highly sensitive tactile sensing systems have become crucial for human–machine interactions and object recognition. However, achieving high sensitivity and mechanical robustness simultaneously…
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- GlowTact: Simple and Compact Vision-Based Tactile Sensing with High Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution
Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) provide rich contact information for robotic manipulation, but existing designs can be hard to simplify and adapt to the size and constraints of humanoid fingertips. We introduce \textbf{GlowTact}, a pressure-responsive vision-based tactile…
Applied / lab · Says "we demonstrate".From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- TACTIC: Understanding Tactile Encoders and Conditioning for Contact-rich Robot Manipulation Policies
Tactile information is essential for contact-rich manipulation tasks in robotics. Vision-based tactile sensors make it particularly easy to design end-to-end manipulation policies with tactile sensing, as they enable the use of existing encoders from computer vision. However…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDFalso at doi.org
- TacVerse: A Multisensor Dataset and Benchmark for Cross‐Sensor Vision‐Based Tactile Perception
Vision‐based tactile sensors (VBTSs) enable robots to infer contact geometry and force‐related cues by imaging deformation through an internal camera, yet generalization across sensor designs remains poorly understood. We present TacVerse, a multisensor dataset and benchmark for…
Imperial College LondonQueen Mary University of LondonKing's College London
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- A Fast Physics-Based Tactile Sensor Simulator via Simplified FEM: Modeling, Calibration, and Sim-to-Real Validation
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- Ultra-compact Photonic Encoder for Optoelectronic Fusion Computing
Abstract Photonic encoders (PEs) provide high-speed optical front ends for optoelectronic fusion computing by transforming input data into compact feature representations before electronic processing. However, the large footprint of existing photonic encoder architectures limits…
National Defense UniversityNational University of Defense TechnologyMilli Savunma ÜniversitesiSouthwest University
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- Calibration-Free Surface Normals Estimation in Vision-Based Tactile Sensing using Universal Photometric Stereo
Vision-based tactile sensors are a popular solution for capturing rich contact surface geometry. However, to obtain high-detail contact surface normals and depth, it is necessary to calibrate the sensor by physically pressing a probe with known geometry against the sensor…
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- CoPRE: Improving Sensitivity in Proprioceptive Contact Detection for Low-Cost Robot Arms
Contact detection during robotic manipulation allows robots to recognize unexpected contact and adapt their motion accordingly. However, in low-cost robot arms without dedicated force or tactile sensors, detecting weak contacts from proprioception is challenging because the…
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- The Presstip: A Hybrid Soft Tactile Sensor for Robot Pose Estimation and Texture Classification
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- AVT: Adhesive visual tactile sensor for anthropomorphic and precise manipulation of tiny mechanical components
Grasping and manipulation of tiny objects have always been a significant challenge in manufacturing and industrial automation, especially in tasks such as small-part sorting, kitting, and assembly preparation. The tiny size makes it hard for vision systems to detect and locate…
Shanghai UniversityBeijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsThe University of Osaka
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- Investigating the Importance of Resolution in Texture Classification on Optical Tactile Sensors
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- Enhancing passive bimodal sensing performance of ionic flexible sensor via the regulation of ion migration behavior
Ionogel-derived flexible tactile sensors have received considerable interest owing to their analogical ion-migration sensing mechanism as the human skin, however, they are still restrictive by the collaborative enhancement of mechanical and sensing performance. Here, a new-style…
University of Science and Technology of ChinaChinese Academy of SciencesSuzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics
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- Tactile-JEPA: Topology-Aware Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Distributed Tactile Sensors
Tactile sensing is an essential modality for robots performing contact-rich, dexterous manipulation, particularly under visual occlusion. While pre-trained image encoders are standard in robot learning pipelines, tactile encoders are still commonly trained from scratch from raw…
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- Norm2Tex: Augmenting Visuo-Tactile Simulations with Texture
Large-scale datasets are essential for training generalist robot control policies. Collecting real-world tactile data is costly and time-consuming, motivating the use of tactile simulations. However, current tactile simulators capture only overall contact geometry and miss fine…
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- High-Spatiotemporal and Multimodal Soft Tactile Interface with Layered Architecture for Simultaneous Structural and Thermal Perception
Advanced robotic systems require tactile perception to interact reliably with objects in environments where visual information is limited by occlusion, illumination variations, and focusing issues. However, conventional tactile sensors are limited to single-stimulus recognition…
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- HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing
Contact-rich manipulation requires estimating forces, slip and contact geometry that can remain ambiguous in scene images. Optical tactile sensors provide both visual observations of the contact surface and mechanical measurements, yet learning from these signals raises two…
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- ZeroTouch: Tactile-Supervised Visual Contact Estimation for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Reliable robotic grasping benefits from estimating the evolving physical interaction and selecting a grasp-dependent compression target. Tactile sensors provide direct interaction measurements but require dedicated hardware at deployment. We introduce ZeroTouch, a…
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- Mechanically Robust, Self‐Healable, and Cryotolerant GelMA Hydrogel for Wearable Tactile Sensors with Enhanced Durability, Lifetime, and Environmental Stability
Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels are promising for wearable tactile sensors due to their biocompatibility, tissue-mimic softness and conductivity, yet restricted by mechanical property, structure damage, dehydration, and freezing during usage. Herein, a mechanically robust…
Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityPeking UniversityPeking University Third HospitalYantai UniversityNorthwestern Polytechnical University
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- Neutron and gamma-ray irradiation testing of an ultrasonic motor and optical encoder for the steering mirror in the ITER divertor infrared thermography system
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- Bench2Dex: Benchmarking Visuo-Tactile Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Across Dexterous Hands
Tactile sensing provides contact information that can be difficult to infer from vision alone, but tactile hardware for dexterous hands has not converged to a common design. Dexterous hands differ in finger structure, contact surfaces, and sensor layouts, while simulated tactile…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDFalso at arxiv.org
- Marker Information Efficacy: guiding marker design through deformation information encoding in vision-based tactile sensing
Abstract Tactile perception is fundamental to manipulation and sensing, yet marker design in vision-based tactile sensors (VTS) remains largely unexplored. Conventional approaches assume that marker displacement alone suffices to characterise soft tissue deformation, without…
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- Language-Guided Representation Learning for Robust Cross-Sensor Material Recognition
Robots need touch to manipulate objects safely and reliably, as many properties, such as softness, texture, and contact stability, are hard to infer from vision alone. However, vision-based tactile sensors yield different observations of the same material due to variations in…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDFalso at arxiv.org
- GIFT: Glove-Inferred Force Transfer: Force-Aware Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer from a Wearable Sensing Glove to a Robot Hand Without Tactile Sensors
Human-to-robot skill transfer from sensing gloves has so far relied on shared hardware: the same tactile glove worn by the demonstrator and the robot, or a learned alignment between two tactile sensors. We present GIFT (Glove-Inferred Force Transfer), a pipeline in which the…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDFalso at arxiv.org
- An FBG tactile sensor array and self-supervised contrastive learning transformer for tumor depth estimation in robotic palpation
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery lacks haptic feedback for localizing subsurface tumors and estimating depth. We present a compact, high-density fiber Bragg grating (FBG) tactile sensor array for robotic palpation. A hexagonal close-packed topology increases spatial…
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChinese Academy of SciencesShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
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- Design, modeling, and optimization of a Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)-based tactile force sensor
The design, modeling, and experimental evaluation of a tactile force sensor utilizing the principle of Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) is presented. The sensor device consists of a waveguide, a silicone probe, a light detector, and an LED source. The study begins with…
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- A robust capacitive 3D tactile sensor with micro-frustum array dielectric and interfacial bonding optimization for high-stability robotic manipulation
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- BIDETA: Brain-Inspired Data-Efficient Tactile Adaptation for Unseen Sensors
Vision-based tactile sensors provide high-resolution contact information for robotic perception and contact-rich manipulation, advancing embodied intelligence through more reliable physical interaction. However, device-specific sensing mechanisms cause tactile foundation models…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDF
- SpectraTac: A Compact Camera-Free Optical Tactile Sensor with Distributed Color Sensing
Tactile sensing is essential for physical interaction in robotics and human--machine systems. However, combining rich tactile information with compact hardware, low cost, and low computational overhead remains challenging. This work presents SpectraTac, a compact, camera-free…
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- Anomaly Detection on Small Industrial Components via Vision-Based Tactile Sensing
Automated inspection of small industrial components, including sub-centimetre-scale parts where defects are geometry-driven and poorly resolved by standard optical cameras, calls for sensing modalities that can directly capture fine surface geometry. Vision-based tactile sensors…
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- $N_0$-Foundation: Towards the Age of Tactile Intelligence
We present $N_0$-Foundation, a paradigm for tactile-enabled embodied manipulation, which integrates tactile sensing hardware, large-scale multimodal data, tactile representation learning, and standardized evaluation. First, we engineer the infrastructure for scalable data…
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- Toward Trustworthy Robot-Assisted Sliding Palpation for Shallow Vessel Localisation with a Calibrated Digital Twin
Reliable localisation of shallow subsurface vessels is important for safe robot-assisted venous access and vessel-aware manipulation, but collecting diverse tactile data on physical hardware is costly, time-consuming, and can degrade soft vision-based tactile sensors. We present…
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- Robust Slip Detection and Material Classification via Spatiotemporal Transformers on a Uniformly-Illuminated Visuo-Tactile Sensor
Tactile sensing is central to robotic manipulation, among which slip detection stands out as a quintessential and critical task. However, existing slip datasets are predominantly limited to binary classification, lacking fine-grained directional perception. To address this…
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- A Durable Vision-Based Tactile Fingertip for Robotic Manipulation
Currently available commercial vision-based tactile sensors provide rich contact information but remain vulnerable to abrasion and repeated concentrated loading, limiting their use in demanding robotic applications. This work presents a durable tactile fingertip comprising a soft…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDF
- GhostTac: Manipulating Tactile Sensors without Physical Contact
Tactile sensors are integral components of modern robotic systems, enabling robots to perceive and interact with the physical environment through tactile feedback. Despite their importance, the physical-layer security of tactile sensors has received little attention in prior…
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- Vision-Based Tactile Intelligence for Robotics: Sensing, Learning, and Embodied Manipulation
Tactile sensing is essential for robots in contact-rich tasks, yet many tactile sensors still provide sparse, low-dimensional signals that do not capture sufficient information for complex robotic perception and interaction. Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs) offer a powerful…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDF
- Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction
Robot sensor designs, particularly tactile sensors, are highly diverse and evolve rapidly. Modeling each sensor in simulation demands substantial domain expertise and computational approximations can degrade the fidelity of the simulated signals. We propose Sim2Real via…
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- MISTac: A Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery offer many advantages over traditional open surgery, but deprive surgeons of tactile feedback and the ability to palpate tissue with their fingers. To address this lack of tactile feedback, we introduce the MISTac, a high resolution…
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- TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning
Recent advances in robot learning for manipulation have increased the importance of collecting real-world demonstration data. However, existing robotic systems primarily focus on end-effector manipulation, making it difficult to teach and execute manipulation tasks involving…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From arXiv · not yet reviewedPDF
- This grant for research and development entitled. ''optically powered ultra-high-speed (opus) wound-field
synchronous generator'' is awarded to purdue university under arpa-e foa number de-foa-0003224 (igniite)
and control number 3224-1861. the purpose of this award is to develop an optically powered ultra-high-
speed (opus) wfsg integrated with optical encoder for position estimation to maximize its power density,
reliability, and power handling capability.
Applied / lab · DOE mission-applied award.From US DOE, via USAspending · not yet reviewed
- Implantable optical tactile sensor for neuroprosthetic feedback
Stroke and spinal cord injuries can result in paralysis, which affects both movement and sense of touch. Treatments that are designed to restore movement, but do not help restore a sense of touch, have limited benefits to patients. A treatment to restore the sense of touch will…
Fundamental research · Research grant.From NSF awards · not yet reviewed
- Triboelectric tactile sensor for pressure and temperature sensing in high-temperature applications
Skin-like sensors capable of detecting multiple stimuli simultaneously have great potential in cutting-edge human-machine interaction. However, realizing multimodal tactile recognition beyond human tactile perception still faces significant challenges. Here, an extreme…
Fundamental research · No laboratory or pilot wording.From OpenAlex · not yet reviewedDOIPDF
- Recent Progress in Advanced Tactile Sensing Technologies for Soft Grippers
Abstract Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured environments and obtain precise properties of objects (e.g., size and shape). It is…
University Town of ShenzhenTsinghua UniversityBeijing Jiaotong UniversityJiangnan UniversityDalian Maritime University
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- Emerging MXene‐Based Flexible Tactile Sensors for Health Monitoring and Haptic Perception
Due to their potential applications in physiological monitoring, diagnosis, human prosthetics, haptic perception, and human-machine interaction, flexible tactile sensors have attracted wide research interest in recent years. Thanks to the advances in material engineering, high…
Guangdong University of TechnologySouthern University of Science and Technology
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- Non‐equilibrium‐Growing Aesthetic Ionic Skin for Fingertip‐Like Strain‐Undisturbed Tactile Sensation and Texture Recognition
Humans use periodically ridged fingertips to precisely perceive the characteristics of objects via ion-based fast- and slow-adaptive mechanotransduction. However, designing artificial ionic skins with fingertip-like tactile capabilities remains challenging because of the…
Donghua UniversityState Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials
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- Wearable Triboelectric Visual Sensors for Tactile Perception
Abstract Tactile sensors with visible light feedback functions, such as wearable displays and electronic skin and biomedical devices, are becoming increasingly important in various fields. However, existing methods cannot meet the application requirements for the tactile…
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- Augmented tactile-perception and haptic-feedback rings as human-machine interfaces aiming for immersive interactions
Advancements of virtual reality technology pave the way for developing wearable devices to enable somatosensory sensation, which can bring more comprehensive perception and feedback in the metaverse-based virtual society. Here, we propose augmented tactile-perception and…
National University of SingaporeSingapore Institute of Manufacturing TechnologySuzhou Research InstituteAgency for Science, Technology and Research
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- Finger-inspired rigid-soft hybrid tactile sensor with superior sensitivity at high frequency
Abstract Among kinds of flexible tactile sensors, piezoelectric tactile sensor has the advantage of fast response for dynamic force detection. However, it suffers from low sensitivity at high-frequency dynamic stimuli. Here, inspired by finger structure—rigid skeleton embedded in…
Xiamen UniversityHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityCity University of Hong KongXiamen University of Technology
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- A biomimetic elastomeric robot skin using electrical impedance and acoustic tomography for tactile sensing
Human skin perceives physical stimuli applied to the body and mitigates the risk of physical interaction through its soft and resilient mechanical properties. Social robots would benefit from whole-body robotic skin (or tactile sensors) resembling human skin in realizing a safe…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Stuttgart
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- Skin-inspired textile-based tactile sensors enable multifunctional sensing of wearables and soft robots
Case Western Reserve UniversityMichigan State UniversityGeorgia Institute of Technology
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- Ultra‐Sensitive, Deformable, and Transparent Triboelectric Tactile Sensor Based on Micro‐Pyramid Patterned Ionic Hydrogel for Interactive Human–Machine Interfaces
Abstract Rapid advances in wearable electronics and mechno‐sensational human–machine interfaces impose great challenges in developing flexible and deformable tactile sensors with high efficiency, ultra‐sensitivity, environment‐tolerance, and self‐sustainability. Herein, a tactile…
Northwestern Polytechnical UniversitySun Yat-sen UniversityNorthumbria University
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- Gradient Architecture‐Enabled Capacitive Tactile Sensor with High Sensitivity and Ultrabroad Linearity Range
Abstract The sensitivity and linearity are critical parameters that can preserve the high pressure‐resolution across a wide range and simplify the signal processing process of flexible tactile sensors. Although extensive micro‐structured dielectrics have been explored to improve…
University of MacauChongqing University
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