The perceived roughness of macroscopic surface features is related to finger skin deformation. For example, skin indentation into surface grooves and the spatial variation in slowly adapting type 1 ...

Humans can easily perceive the shapes and textures of grasped objects due to high-density mechanoreceptor networks in the hand. However, replicating this capability in wearable devices with limited ...

According to a 2014 review in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology [1] polycystin-1 is a mechanoreceptor – essentially a sensor that helps kidney cells respond to fluid flow.