Recent Advances in Cutaneous Haptic Interfaces: A Review

ABSTRACT Cutaneous haptic interfaces have demonstrated substantial potential in human–machine interaction, enabling applications such as immersive experiences, robotic teleoperation, and sensory transfer in prosthetics. By conveying rich haptic cues such as indentation, stretching, vibration, and temperature, cutaneous feedback improves presence, realism, task performance, and the stability of two‐way interaction loops. This article introduces the fundamental concept of cutaneous haptic interfaces and reviews recent advances in cutaneous feedback modalities and device paradigms from skin‐integrated patches to fingertips and whole‐hand wearable devices. It highlights progress in spatiotemporal programmability for each feedback modality, as well as in combined multimodal feedback. Cutaneous adaptability designs for haptic feedback devices are also discussed, with an emphasis on maintaining natural interaction and achieving personalized haptic feedback. In addition, the integration of haptic feedback devices with sensing units has emerged as a popular trend, facilitating closed‐loop control for more accurate and stable haptic interaction. Finally, the article concludes by underscoring a complete workflow spanning coordinated visual‐haptic sensing, encoding, rendering, and feedback to support dexterous haptic interaction and enable more lifelike, responsive, and dependable performance in virtual or teleoperation scenarios.