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Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics
Ahad M. Rauf, Ran Zhou, Eric Acome +5
As haptic interfaces integrate more seamlessly into wearables and everyday environments, they increasingly require actuators that are soft, thin, silent, and energy efficient. Howe…
HapticBots: Distributed Encountered-type Haptics for VR with Multiple Shape-changing Mobile Robots
Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair +2
HapticBots introduces a novel encountered-type haptic approach for Virtual Reality (VR) based on multiple tabletop-size shape-changing robots. These robots move on a tabletop and c…
RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots
Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng +5
RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots: R…
PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots
Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki1, Daniel Leithinger +1
We present PufferBot, an aerial robot with an expandable structure that may expand to protect a drone's propellers when the robot is close to obstacles or collocated humans. Puffer…
ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots
Ryo Suzuki, Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi +4
We introduce shape-changing swarm robots. A swarm of self-transformable robots can both individually and collectively change their configuration to display information, actuate obj…