Nature Electronics Article on Novel Haptic Interface

Article in Nature Electronics reports on a haptic interface that uses shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators to provide cutaneous feedback to the fingertip. The SMA actuators are patterned using UV laser micromachining and incorporated into a fully soft, wearable, wireless finger-mounted device. The interface can be used to provide touch feedback for applications in virtual reality, remote communication, and assistance for the visually impaired.

A flexible skin-mounted haptic interface for multimodal cutaneous feedback
Nature Electronics, September 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01443-w [link]

Also check out the other following papers from SML on using soft robotics for haptic interaction:

Embodied Auxetic Intelligence in a Glove‐Type Wearable Haptic Interface Connecting Humans to Robots and the Metaverse
Advanced Functional Materials, August 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.70818 [link]

Wearable soft technologies for haptic sensing and feedback
Advanced Functional Materials, December 2020, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202007428 [link]