A fully integrated breathable haptic textile
Wearable haptics serve as an enhanced media to connect humans and VR/robots. The inevitable sweating issue in all wearables creates a bottleneck for wearable haptics, as the sweat/moisture accumulated in the skin/device interface can substantially affect feedback accuracy, comfortability, and create hygienic problems. Nowadays, wearable haptics typically gain performance at the cost of sacrificing the breathability, comfort, and biocompatibility. Here, we developed a fully integrated breathable haptic textile (FIBHT) to solve these trade-off issues, where the FIBHT exhibits high-level integration of 128 pixels over the palm, great stretchability of 400%, and superior permeability of over 657 g/m<sup>2</sup>/day (moisture) and 40 mm/s (air). It is a stand-alone haptic system totally composed of stretchable, breathable, and bioadhesive materials, which empowers it with precise, sweating/movement-insensitive and dynamic feedback, and makes FIBHT powerful for virtual touching in broad scenarios.
Authors
- Qiuna Zhuang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3827-2928)
- Xinge Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0522-1171)
- Chun Ki Yiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3841-5327)
- Jianpeng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2407-8980)
- Guihuan Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0486-0748)
- Kuanming Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8744-8892)
- Jingkun Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5394-4388)
- Xingcan Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-2470)
- Kenneth Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4614-5606)
- Lung Chow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-1031)
- Ya Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0965-8226)
- Shengxin Jia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-3872)
- Zhenlin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2100-1363)
- Yawen Yang
- Tao Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5446-823X)
- Zijian Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6653-7594)
- Yuyu Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2000-5410)
- Qiang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2707-0258)
- Jian Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-0932)
- Jiachen Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4828-0477)
- Binbin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8796-2592)
- Guangyao Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5664-4898)
- Huiming Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-2342)
- Jiyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-4559)
- Jingyi Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-6131)
- Dengfeng Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8875-6974)
- Hehua Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9383-1334)
- Yuze Qiu
- D. Ye
- Zhiyuan Li
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Department of Health (CN)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- City University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Wenzhou Institute of Industrial Science (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2024-10-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq9575
- Citations
- 49
- Primary Topic
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 16.79