Massimo Totaro
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
46 Papers
141 Citations
Massimo Totaro is an academic researcher from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soft robotics & Tactile sensor. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 44 publications. Previous affiliations of Massimo Totaro include University of Pisa.
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Papers
Highly stretchable electroluminescent skin for optical signaling and tactile sensing
Chris Larson,Bryan Peele,Shuo Li,Sanlin S. Robinson,Massimo Totaro,Lucia Beccai,Barbara Mazzolai,Robert F. Shepherd +7 more
TL;DR: An electroluminescent material is presented that is capable of large uniaxial stretching and surface area changes while actively emitting light and is combined in a stretchable electronic material suitable for soft robotics.
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Toward Perceptive Soft Robots: Progress and Challenges
TL;DR: The knowledge gap and promising solutions toward perceptive soft robots are discussed and analyzed to provide a perspective in this field and challenges and trends in developing multimodal sensors, stretchable conductive materials and electronic interfaces, modeling techniques, and data interpretation for soft robotic sensing are highlighted.
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Flexible Three‐Axial Force Sensor for Soft and Highly Sensitive Artificial Touch
Lucie Viry,Alessandro Levi,Massimo Totaro,Alessio Mondini,Virgilio Mattoli,Barbara Mazzolai,Lucia Beccai +6 more
TL;DR: A soft tactile sensor able to detect both normal and tangential forces is fabricated with a simple method using conductive textile, representing an original approach in the emulation of natural touch.
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3D Printing Materials for Soft Robotics.
TL;DR: Recent developments in the field of materials for 3D printing of soft robotics are summarized, including high-performance flexible and stretchable materials, hydrogels, self-healing materials, and shape memory polymers.
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Revealing bending and force in a soft body through a plant root inspired approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used two tactile sensing elements, made of soft and stretchable materials, which conform to reversible changes in the shape of the body they are built in and follow its deformations.