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The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic growth of wearable sensor technology, mainly represented by flexible, stretchable, on-skin electronic sensors that provide rich information of the wearer's health conditions and surroundings. A…

Tactile sensing is crucial in robotics and wearable devices for safe perception and interaction with the environment. Optical tactile sensors have emerged as promising solutions, as they are immune to electromagnetic interference and have…

We report on noise and thermal conductance measurements taken in order to determine an upper bound on the performance of graphene as a terahertz photon detector. The main mechanism for sensitive terahertz detection in graphene is bolometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Christopher B. McKitterick , Heli Vora , Xu Du , Boris S. Karasik , Daniel E. Prober

Graphene is an excellent material for Hall sensors due to its atomically thin structure, high carrier mobility and low carrier density. However, graphene devices need to be protected from the environment for reliable and durable performance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Bogdan Karpiak , André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

This paper presents a neuromorphic, event-driven tactile sensing system for soft, large-area skin, based on the Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) integrated with a flexible silicone optical waveguide skin. Instead of repetitively scanning…

In order to increase the response speed of the InSe-based photodetector with high photoresponsivity, graphene is used as the transparent electrodes to modify the difference of the work function between the electrodes and the InSe. As…

We report the fabrication and human trial of a novel wearable temperature sensor based on WS2-QDs/RGO; which performs instant measurement like thermometer in a wide temperature range: 77K-398 K, in both static- and instant mode. The device…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-08 Abid , Poonam Sehrawat , C. M. Julien , S. S. Islam

Graphene has emerged as a novel platform for opto-electronic applications and photodetector, but the inefficient conversion from light to current has so far been an important roadblock. The main challenge has been to increase the light…

Reproducing the capabilities of the human sense of touch in machines is an important step in enabling robot manipulation to have the ease of human dexterity. A combination of robotic technologies will be needed, including soft robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Nathan F. Lepora

Robots require full-body, high-resolution tactile sensing to operate safely in unstructured environments, enabling reflexive responses and closed-loop control. However, the pixel counts needed for dense, large-area coverage limit readout…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ariel Slepyan , Dian Li , Hongjun Cai , Ryan McGovern , Aidan Aug , Sriramana Sankar , Trac Tran , Nitish Thakor

This paper addresses the localization of contacts of an unknown grasped rigid object with its environment, i.e., extrinsic to the robot. We explore the key role that distributed tactile sensing plays in localizing contacts external to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Daolin Ma , Siyuan Dong , Alberto Rodriguez

Developments in touch-sensitive textiles have enabled many novel interactive techniques and applications. Our digitally-knitted capacitive active sensors can be manufactured at scale with little human intervention. Their sensitive areas are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Denisa Qori McDonald , Richard Valett , Lev Saunders , Genevieve Dion , Ali Shokoufandeh

The maturity of the chemical vapor deposition graphene-based device processing has increased from chip level demonstrations to wafer-scale fabrication in the past few years. Due to this wafer-scale, electrical characterization and analysis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Anton Murros , Miika Soikkeli , Anni Virta , Arantxa Maestre , Leire Morillo , Alba Centeno , Amaia Zurutuza , Olli-Pekka Kilpi

Hardness is among the most important attributes of an object that humans learn about through touch. However, approaches for robots to estimate hardness are limited, due to the lack of information provided by current tactile sensors. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Wenzhen Yuan , Chenzhuo Zhu , Andrew Owens , Mandayam A. Srinivasan , Edward H. Adelson

Tactile sensing is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet large-scale human demonstration datasets lack tactile feedback, limiting their effectiveness in skill transfer to robots. To address this, we introduce TacCap, a wearable Fiber…

Gait and static body measurement are important biometric technologies for passive human recognition. Many previous works argue that recognition performance based completely on the gait feature is limited. The reason for this limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Ke Yang , Yong Dou , Shaohe Lv , Fei Zhang , Qi Lv

One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Søren Ulstrup , Marco Bianchi , Richard Hatch , Dandan Guan , Alessandro Baraldi , Dario Alfè , Liv Hornekær , Philip Hofmann

The infrared (IR) photoresponse of graphene synthesized by an atmospheric chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system using a mixture of hydrogen and methane gases was studied. The IR sensor devices were fabricated using graphene films…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Ahalapitiya H. Jayatissa , Madhav Gautam

we have fabricated transparent electronic devices based on graphene materials with thickness down to one single atomic layer by the transfer printing method. The resulting printed graphene devices retain high field effect mobility and have…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-10 Jian-Hao Chen , Masa Ishigami , Chaun Jang , Daniel R. Hines , Michael S. Fuhrer , Ellen D. Williams

Tactile sensing typically involves active exploration of unknown surfaces and objects, making it especially effective at processing the characteristics of materials and textures. A key property extracted by human tactile perception is…