CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- 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 ...

Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities GelSight technology lets robots gauge objects' hardness and manipulate small tools Date: June 5, 2017 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) A joint research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has developed a new soft tactile sensor with skin-comparable characteristics. A robotic gripper with the sensor ...

Owing to its ability to perceive rich, multi-modal tactile information, DM-Hand1 enables robots to perform high-difficulty tasks such as adaptive grip force control, delicate handling of fragile ...

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, making ...

Researchers have developed an L3 F-TOUCH sensor to enhance tactile capabilities in robots, allowing it to 'feel' objects and adjust its grip accordingly. Researchers from Queen Mary University of ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Olin College of Engineering recently explored the possibility of using contact microphones instead of conventional tactile sensors, thus enabling the ...

The advancement of soft artificial tactile sensors with skin-comparable characteristics can make domestic robots become part of our daily life," concluded Dr Shen. ### ...