3 papers
cs.RO2026
Robotic Fruits with Tunable Stiffness and Sensing: Towards a Methodology for Developing Realistic Physical Twins of Fruits
Saitarun Nadipineni, Keshav Pandiyan, Kaspar Althoefer +2
The global agri-food sector faces increasing challenges from labour shortages, high consumer demand, and supply-chain disruptions, resulting in substantial losses of unharvested pr…
cs.RO2026
Human Emotion-Mediated Soft Robotic Arts: Exploring the Intersection of Human Emotions, Soft Robotics and Arts
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chenhao Hong, Tanishtha Ramlall +4
Soft robotics has emerged as a versatile field with applications across various domains, from healthcare to industrial automation, and more recently, art and interactive installati…
cs.RO2026
Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie +2
Misdiagnosis can result in delayed treatment and patient harm. Robotic patient simulators (robopatients) provide a controlled framework for training and evaluating clinicians in ra…