Soft Sensors and Actuators for Designing New Human-Robot/Machine Interaction Interfaces

With recent strong interests in flexible displays and wearable devices allowing them to be mechanically robust against deformation, sensors and actuators for human-machine interfaces are required to be soft to be embedded into flexible mechanisms. We introduce recent approaches in soft and flexible sensors and actuators, and discuss current issues to be solved in the topics. An open discussion will take place on the future of these types of sensors and actuators for human-robot interaction systems.