Humanizing Artificial Touch - Skin, Sensing, and Structures

Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with case examples on how these were created for amputees achieve a more a natural and rich human-robot tactile interaction.

This book is oriented towards students, researchers, and clinical practitioners who are working in the design and construction of artificial hands for prosthetics and social robotics.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Humanizing Artificial Touch

Part II: Simulations and Experiments on Artificial Skins
2. Modelling of Synthetic Skin Materials¿
3. Skin Conformance, Compliance, and Hysteresis
4. Effects of the Skin Materials on Subsurface Pressure Profile of Local Shapes
5. Recovery Behaviour of Artificial Skins after Object Contact
6. Air Pockets for Lifelike Skin Compliance in Artificial Finger Phalanges¿

Part III: Tactile Sensing and Bio-Inspired Data Processing
7. Cellulose-Based and Graphene-filled Composites for Tactile Sensing
8. Bio-inspired Tactile Sensing in an Object Grasp-Lift Task
9. Artificial Fingerprints for the Discrimination of Local Shapes
10. Object Shape Discrimination with Sensorized Gloves
11. Reflex-like Methods for Preventing Slippage of Hand-Held Objects ¿
12. Grasping Force Comparisons between Human and Prosthetic Hands
13. Tactile Sensing during Human Handshakes

Part IV: Structural Design and 3D Manufacturing Techniques for Artificial Hands
14. Replication of an Amputee’s Missing Limbs with 3D Scanning
15. Patient-Specific Artificial Finger Manufacturing
16. Patient-Specific Artificial Arm and Hand Manufacturing
17. Design and Analysis of Flexible Joints of 3D Printed Hands
18. Analysis of Openly Accessible 3D Printed Hands
19. Artificial Hand with Lifelike Warmth and Softness

Part V: Conclusions
20. Future Directions

About the author

John-John Cabibihan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, in Doha, Qatar. He is an inventor in 18 patent families and has over 150 publications in journal articles, books, and conference papers. Dr. Cabibihan is an editorial board member of various leading scientific journals such as the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems, and Springer Nature Applied Sciences Journal, and has been recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by Qatar University in 2021. Over the years, his work has focused toward healthcare robotics, specifically in assistive and social robotics for the therapy of children with autism, lifelike prosthetics, bio-inspired tactile sensing, human-robotic touch and gestures, and robotic surgery.

Product details

• Authors: Cabibihan John-John
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.01.2026
• EAN: 9780323955195
• ISBN: 978-0-323-95519-5
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electrical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical engineering, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General