PALPABLE Project

Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive Surgery

The project is funded by the European Union under the #HorizonEurope programme.

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🔬 Penn State built a flexible pressure sensor that stays stable through 20,000 loading cycles, and can distinguish foods by texture, map hand gestures, and identify object shapes in real time.

📰 https://t.co/Kafo6MfAg3

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✋⚡ A self-powered tactile sensor from HKUST Guangzhou can identify materials and measure softness at sub-millimetre resolution — no external power supply needed.

📰 https://t.co/UK0yIJIoEs

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⚡🤖 What if a robot could feel pain, not emotionally, but physically? A new neuromorphic e-skin from TU Munich does exactly that, distinguishing everyday touch from damaging force in milliseconds.

📰 https://t.co/azTNCA0hmR

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A new electronic skin from Hanyang University packs touch sensitivity and proximity detection into a single transistor, with a 10×10 pixel array that responds to individual fingertip touches.

📰 https://t.co/pY5mfZm31n

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✋ Researchers at TU Dresden, Stanford, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology built a tactile sensor small enough to enter the body through an 8mm surgical port, and it can distinguish tissues by touch.

https://t.co/zGwXLkh6xS
#PALPABLE #TactileSensing #MISTac

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✋ Seoul National University’s ultrathin sensor gives robots simultaneous touch AND temperature sensing, switching 16 times per second.

📰 https://t.co/ryIwYZHAWM
#PALPABLE #ElectronicSkin #MultimodalSensing #SeoulNational #TechHiveLabs #EU #Prosthetics

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🧠✋ Hanyang University’s new dual-gate transistor gives electronic skin tuneable sensitivity — and it survived 1,000 test cycles without performance loss.

📰 https://t.co/ry5jJqWeEo
#PALPABLE #ElectronicSkin #NanoEnergy #TactileSensor #TechHiveLabs #EU #Robotics

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🎨✋ Queen Mary University of London invented a sensor that lets robots “see” touch, force becomes colour, read by a standard camera.

📰 https://t.co/ZBWCbWwMIg
#PALPABLE #TactileSensing #RobotTouch #QueenMary #TechHiveLabs #EU #ScienceAdvances

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A recent study introduces EndoTac, a miniaturised, camera-based tactile sensor designed to work through a standard trocar.

https://t.co/67p13wMvqc

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A new electronic skin sensor detects touch, pressure AND nearby objects, with tuneable sensitivity and 100-pixel arrays that survived 1,000 test cycles.

📰 https://t.co/4DUvGJtA66

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The PALPABLE project is developing a new generation of laparoscopic tool that combine tactile sensing, soft robotics, computer vision and intelligent data processing to give surgeons access to information that is difficult to obtain.

https://t.co/UG6ViuKKw0

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Early data from 62 robot-assisted radical prostatectomy cases performed with the da Vinci 5's force-feedback technology demonstrate promising surgical efficiency and functional recovery outcomes.
https://t.co/KOEV31MAFO

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🏥 The da Vinci 5 reduced tissue force by 43% with its new haptic system, force feedback is transforming surgical robotics.

📰 https://t.co/6wXCk882YI
#PALPABLE #TechHiveLabs #SurgicalRobotics #HapticFeedback #MedTech #SoftRobotics #Innovation

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A review maps the rise of soft robotic grippers in surgery, and tactile sensing is the breakthrough.
The review catalogues how pneumatic, tendon-driven, and hybrid soft actuators with embedded tactile sensors are transforming minimally invasive surgery.
https://t.co/e7ESsmID60

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🇺🇸 $2.5M U.S. Air Force contract for an MIT spinout's next-gen tactile fingertip sensors.
GelSight, spun out of MIT, received a Phase II SBIR to develop 'GelSight Nano' — a sub-15 mm tactile sensor for robotic grippers and humanoid hands.
📰 https://t.co/H4Y6Nx3L37
#PALPABLE

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🧠 City University of Hong Kong: robotic skin that feels pain, and flinches before the brain even knows. Published in PNAS.

📰 https://t.co/J9947LH9RA
#PALPABLE #PNAS #ElectronicSkin #TactileSensing #Neuromorphic #RoboticTouch

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As part of the PALPABLE project, our partners from Tech Hive Labs and the University of Essex presented their latest research at the IPCAI 2026, held alongside CARS 2026 in Nagoya.

https://t.co/hpyyWjRqHe

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💎 Cambridge just gave robots human-level touch — published in Nature Materials.

University of Cambridge researchers developed a miniature tactile sensor using graphene and liquid-metal composites.

📰 https://t.co/GxBqH6pXQq

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A fascinating advance in vision-based tactile sensing from researchers at University of London.
By using a colour-changing mechanochromic material, the team demonstrates a tactile sensor that transforms pressure directly into visible colour patterns.

https://t.co/ZBWCbWweSI

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University of Turku researchers developed stretchable, transparent electronic skin modeled on natural structures like tree leaves.
📰 https://t.co/8QadyQ7U2i