Abstract: Tactile sensing is a particularly important and challenging task for a modern robot to safely manipulate objects, interact with humans in a shared space, and provide various services. This ...

Abstract: With the goal of providing an alternative to optical and other tactile sensors, we set out to stress test the object shape identification capabilities of barometric tactile arrays in robotic ...

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Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...