Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview

The object perception capabilities of humans are impressive, and this becomes even more evident when trying to develop solutions with a similar proficiency in autonomous robots. While there have been notable advancements the technologies for artificial vision touch, effective integration these two sensory modalities robotic applications still needs be improved, several open challenges exist. Taking inspiration from how combine visual haptic perceive properties drive execution manual tasks, article summarises current state art visuo-haptic Firstly, biological basis human multimodal is outlined. Then, latest advances sensing data collection strategies robots discussed. Next, an overview main computational techniques presented, highlighting machine learning presenting few representative articles areas recognition, peripersonal space representation manipulation. Finally, informed by challenges, outlines promising new research directions.