Robots may soon mimic the human sense of touch, with advances in flexible tactile detection aiming to endow them with the ability to sense friction and slip. Polymer optical fiber knots are at the ...

Robotic technology is rapidly evolving in the recycling industry, especially in the area of optical sorting equipment. Drawing from deep datasets, optical sorters using different ejection methods ...

A new contactless optical-tracking method for robot-assisted brain surgery has been found to match traditional accuracy but completes setup in less than half the time. Study: Phantom and in vivo ...

Fig. 1 Overview of the OFN sensor. (A) Schematic diagram of the OFN sensing system; (B) Photographs of the output light when the sensor was untouched, (C) subjected to normal force, and (D) subjected ...