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.

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2017, June 5). Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 06 ...

Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.

Aimed at robot hands and grippers, Tactaxis from Melexis is a soft tactile sensor prototype that outputs a measure of the 3D force vector acting on its surface. “This improves robots’ hands and ...

Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a robot capable of identifying materials, thanks to a tactile sensor. The so-called BioTac sensor mimics the human finger, with ...

Mar 01, 2021: Novel soft tactile sensor with skin-comparable characteristics for robots (w/video) (Nanowerk News) A joint research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has developed a ...

Now, researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have incorporated it into an ultra-sensitive tactile sensor for robots. Three years ago, we first heard about GelSight – an experimental new ...

Researchers have created a thin-film tactile sensor that, in some ways, is as sensitive as the human finger. When pressed against a textured object, the film creates a topographical map of the ...

Melexis' Tactaxis integrated tactile sensor is a compact and soft device that provides 3D force vector information to improve the performance capability of a robot's hands and grippers, ...

London, June 6 (IANS) Scientists have mounted a sensor technology on robots to give them greater sensitivity and dexterity to help them manipulate small household items precisely.

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson's research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact ...