One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this, at least on robots with joints, is to fit ...

The tactile device is thin, flexible, and has 25 stimulation generating points within a 2 cm × 2 cm area. To achieve wearable, to install the driving circuit close to the device, we use high voltage ...

Marcia O’Malley, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Engineering and professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Rice University. Haptic devices, which enable communication through touch ...