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Figure 5. (A) Performance enhancement in several perceptual and behavioural domains owing to multisensory integration ; (B)
Exploded-view schematic illustration of a device with 32 independently controlled haptic actuators, NFC electronics, circuit schematic
and images, and exploded-view schematic illustration of a haptic actuator; and (C) illustration of “virtual touch process” and “sense of
virtual touch” where a girl touches a screen that displays a video feed of her grandmother, who is wearing an epidermal VR device on
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her hand and arm. This figure is quoted with permission from Yu et al. . NFC: Near-field communication; VR: virtual reality.
information to adjust our grasping force by engaging muscles and tendons to hold an object without
crushing it. The tight coupling between the somatosensory and motor systems defines manual dexterity.
The high level of dexterity of the human hand allows humans to perform numerous complex tasks.
Therefore, the human hand is often used as the inspiration to develop smart skins for future interactive
robotics and wearable health monitoring devices [55,137] .
