Pleasant Stroke Touch on Human Back by a Human and a Robot

Pleasant touching is an important aspect of social interactions that is widely used as a caregiving technique. To address the problems resulting from a lack of available human caregivers, previous research has attempted to develop robots that can perform this kind of pleasant touch. However, it rema...

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Main Authors: Tomoki Ishikura, Yuki Kitamura, Wataru Sato, Jun Takamatsu, Akishige Yuguchi, Sung-Gwi Cho, Ming Ding, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Tsukasa Ogasawara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1136