... care Robotics Japan Intelligent sensors Skin (body) Tactile sensors On 25 August 2008, the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei Weekly announced a pressure and friction sensor that mimics the human skin. This has potential applications in health care robots, enabling them to touch...

... Ultra thin tactile sensor Keywords: Sensors, Japan The Industrial Products Research Institute run by the Japanese government's Industrial Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo, has reported the development of an ultra-thin tactile sensor that is just about one-third as thick...

... Japan Telecommunications Optical sensors Japan Telecommunications Energy Laboratory designs optical sensor nano-level accuracy Keywords: Sensors, Japan, Telecommunications, Optical sensors A very small optical positioning sensor has been developed by the Nippon Telegraph...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Sensors Japan Keywords Sensors, Japan Thanks to the innovative application of magnetic induction, a brand new sensing concept has recently been introduced to whet the design engineer's appetite. Furthermore, it is not just another niche...

...Kazuhiro Tsuruta; Yoshikazu Mikuriya; Yuichi Ishikawa This paper describes some aspects of micro sensors developed as part of the micromachine project in Japan. This national R&D project, industrial science and technology frontier program “Micromachine technology”, was inaugurated in 1991...