William Taube Navaraj
Papers
11
Total Citations
1,061
H-Index
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About
William Taube Navaraj is a leading researcher in the field of flexible electronics, with a primary focus on developing energy-autonomous electronic skin (e-skin) for robotics, prosthetics, and human-machine interaction. His major contributions include pioneering the first energy-autonomous, flexible, and transparent tactile skin (312 citations), which integrates energy harvesting directly into the sensing platform—eliminating the need for external batteries. He has also advanced tactile sensing by developing fingerprint-inspired capacitive-piezoelectric skins that can discriminate between static and dynamic stimuli (153 citations), and by creating 3D-printed robotic hands with intrinsic soft pressure sensors (137 citations). Navaraj’s work on nanowire FET-based neural elements for tactile data processing (126 citations) represents a significant step toward hardware-implementable neural networks for e-skin. His research has been instrumental in enabling robots and prosthetic hands to perceive pressure, temperature, and humidity simultaneously, as demonstrated in his multisensory smart glove (27 citations). With over 1,000 total citations across his most-cited works, Navaraj’s innovations are shaping the future of soft robotics, wearable health monitors, and assistive technologies for the deafblind community.
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Top Papers
- 1Energy‐Autonomous, Flexible, and Transparent Tactile Skin312 citations · 2017
- 2New materials and advances in making electronic skin for interactive robots181 citations · 2015
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- 5Nanowire FET Based Neural Element for Robotic Tactile Sensing Skin126 citations · 2017
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- 7Multisensory Smart Glove for Tactile Feedback in Prosthetic Hand27 citations · 2016
- 8Tactile sensor array laden 3D-printed soft robotic gripper14 citations · 2020
- 93D Printed Phalanx Packaged with Embedded Pressure Sensor14 citations · 2018
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