Yoshinori Shouji
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85
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About
Yoshinori Shouji is a leading researcher in soft robotics and flexible electronics, specializing in the development of advanced tactile sensors and actuators for robotic and haptic applications. His work centers on optimizing ferroelectric polymers and functional material composites to create soft, stretchable, and highly sensitive electronic skin (e-skin). Shouji’s major contributions include the design of a soft pressure sensor that achieves high sensitivity through precise control of the ferroelectric-polymer molecular weight (27 citations), and a fast-response, high-power tunable ultrathin soft actuator for haptic devices (25 citations). He also pioneered a stretchable acceleration sensor for robotic e-skin that combines soft and functional polymers to directly measure dynamic motion (22 citations), and developed a printed soft sensor with passivation layers for detecting object slippage during robotic gripping (10 citations). His work has been published in high-impact venues like *Advanced Functional Materials*, and his sensors are critical for enabling robots to handle objects with human-like dexterity. Shouji’s research directly advances the fields of biomimetic robotics, artificial muscles, and human-machine interfaces, with his most-cited papers collectively garnering over 85 citations, underscoring his growing influence in soft matter engineering.
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