Fresh, frozen and processed berries are a multi-billion-dollar business in America. In Arkansas alone, fresh-market ...

We don’t know if picking blackberries at scale is something people enjoy doing. But if you do, we have bad news. The ...

A new multimodal robotic hand designed by USC researchers integrates thermal, inertial, and tactile sensing to enable safe, ...

Engineers create ultra-fast robotic skin that mimics human touch, enabling precise grip control and real-time adjustments in ...

d) Demonstration of the force sensor function in FTS. e) FTS is applied to material identification and object sorting in an intelligent workshop. Credit: Advanced Materials (2025).

The electronic textile sensor could be useful in manufacturing, robotic surgery, even prosthetic limbs in the near future.

We describe a force-controlled robotic gripper with built-in tactile and 3D perception. We also describe a complete autonomous manipulation pipeline consisting of object detection, segmentation, point ...