Humanizing Artificial Touch

John-John Cabibihan is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, in Doha, Qatar. He received the Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering, with specialization in Biorobotics, from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007. Concurrent with his Ph.D. studies, he was accepted to the co-tutors PhD programme of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France in 2004-2005, where he worked on soft materials at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie. In 2021, he completed the Venture Creation and Finance Programmes at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Cabibihan is an inventor in 20 patent families, has over 200 publications and 15 edited books. Dr. Cabibihan was a cofounding Assistant Editor and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Social Robotics. 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, and human-robotic touch and gestures. His works were featured by Nature Materials, MIT Technology Review, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Popular Science, New Scientist, Discovery News, New York Magazine, among others.

• Part I: Introduction1. IntroductionPart II: Skin2. Human and Artificial Soft Skins3. Artificial Skin Materials Modeling4. Artificial Skin Conformance and Compliance5. Artificial Skin Hysteresis, Relaxation, Creep,and Recovery6. Artificial Skin Thickness and FilteringPart III: Sensing7. Human and Artificial Tactile Sensing8. Sensing the Finger, Object, and EnvironmentContact9. Sensing Object Slippage and ReflexResponse10. Sensing of Local Surface Primitives11. Sensing of Global Shape PrimitivesPart IV: Structures12. Human and Artificial Hand Structures13. Artificial Finger and Hand Fabrication14. Artificial Flexible Finger Joints15. Artificial Underactuated Hands16. Artificial Thermo-soft HandsPart V: Conclusions17. Conclusions