[James Eckert] got his hands on a Freescale MPR121 capacitive touch sensor. The chip in question speaks I2C and senses up to twelve simultaneous capacitive sense electrodes; break-out boards are ...

If you’re ever hunting for a touch sensor but can’t get your hands on one, [Alan Chatham’s] tutorial on simple DIY capacitive touch sensors might be just what you need to keep things moving ...

According to the team, the advancement could help robots better detect ... contact preparation on sensor performance, the team hopes to ensure that future research in touch sensing and flexible ...

How do robots ... sensors, and some will have a larger impact on certain types of sensors than others. Those types of sensors include four that warranted a deeper dive: resistive, capacitive ...

Using multi-material 3D printing and computational tools, this work demonstrates an approach to generate and fabricate conductive traces within objects to support capacitive touch sensing. Touching ...

Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the ... cheap robotic skins could allow robots to mimic human touch, allowing ...

Low-cost robotic skin sensor could enable robots to mimic human touch, allowing them to properly grasp an object by differentiang between curves and edges. Researchers at Northwestern University and ...