PhotoElasticFinger: Robot Tactile Fingertip Based on Photoelastic Effect by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Nurdaulet Zhuzbay, Ainur Koshkinbayeva, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev , Zhanat Kappassov was published in MDPI Sensors as part of the Special Issue Advances in Bio-Inspired Skin-Like Sensor Technologies, 2022.

Haptic Devices: Wearability-Based Taxonomy and Literature Review was published in IEEE Access

VibroTouch: Active Tactile Sensor for Contact Detection and Force Sensing via Vibrations by Danissa Sandykbayeva, Zhanat Kappassov, and Bakhtiyar Orazbayev was published in MDPI Sensors as part of the Special Issue Advances in Bio-Inspired Skin-Like Sensor Technologies, 2022.

Robust Detection of Absence of Slip in Robot Hands and Feet together with Vincent Hayward (wikipedia) was accepted to IEEE Sensors, 2021.
Students with ROS skills are welcome for PhD studies at Robotics Dept (contact our team if you are interested).
The Undergraduate students, Nurdaulet Zhuzbay, Karina Burunchina, Danissa Sandykbayeva, Saltanat Seitzhan, and Nurlan Kabdyshev, as well as Master students Togzhan Syrymova, Ayan Mazhitov, and Adilzhan Adilkhanov, successfully defended their respective degrees in May 2022 and August 2022.
Zhanat Kappassov will present a haptic device assembled in Tactile Lab to Google Outreach Research Team, USA, and will give a talk for the Sberbank AI team, Russia.
Research Grant Proposal was submitted to Chevron/NU grant call.

Nurlan Kabdyshev told about his journey in the Robotics field on the EL ARNA YouTube channel.

2021 year
We got 150k USD grant for 3 years.
In 2021, our team attracted the attention of the mass media. We were 2 times on the "24 Khabar" news channel and participated in Open Talk on Instagram.

"Augmented Reality and Haptic Teleoperation" by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Nurlan Zhaniyar, Jabrail Chumakov, and Zhanat Kappassov was submitted to RA-L, 2021
The paper “Can A Vibrotactile Stimulation On Fingertips Make An Illusion Of Elbow Joint Movement?” by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Zhanat Kappassov was accepted to IROS2021
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L

The paper “Can A Vibrotactile Stimulation On Fingertips Make An Illusion Of Elbow Joint Movement?” by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Zhanat Kappassov was accepted to IROS2021
We got 18 mln KZT per year grant from a Ministry in Kazakhstan for developing an event-based tactile sensor
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L
Zhanat Kappassov had written an article about Active Manipulation for "Encyclopedia Robotics".
IROS2021 conference paper was submitted
Tactile lab is looking for a PhD student candidate with skills in ROS.
Tactile lab got a 18 mln kzt per year grant from Ministry of Education and Studies in Kazakhstan ( 3 years).
Temirlan Galimzhanov, Ayan Mazhitov, and Togzhan Syrymova talked about their projects and thoughts about Robotics in Kazakhstan in the new News video of the Rubric 'Science' called 'The development of robotics in Kazakhstan' (in Russian).

- The 1st Camping Robotics Workshop near Temirtau city, Kazakhstan -- a new format of discussing and wide-spreading the knowledge on robotics.

- One more journal paper, on which we have been working for two years, was finally published in MDPI Sensors Journal: "Deep Vibro-Tactile Perception for Simultaneous Texture Identification, Slip Detection, and Speed Estimation, Massalim et al, 2020". Feel free to read it as we paid 2k USD for the open access option.
- Three papers and one student competition proposal are accepted to IEEE/ASME AIM 2020, Boston, USA 1. Togzhan Syrymova*, Karina Burunchina, Valeriy Novossyolov, Saltanat Seitzhan, Zhanat Kappassov AIM2020 Student Design Competition Proposal Multimodal Tactile Sensing Glove Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 2. Zhanat Kappassov*, Juan-Antonio CORRALES-RAMON, Véronique Perdereau Simulation of Tactile Sensing Arrays for Physical Interaction Tasks Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 3 Togzhan Syrymova*, Yerkebulan Massalim, Yerbolat khassanov, Zhanat Kappassov Vibro-Tactile Foreign Body Detection in Granular Objects based on Squeeze-Induced Mechanical Vibrations 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 4. Temirlan Galimzhanov, Altay Zhakatayev, Ramil Kashapov, Zhanat Kappassov, Huseyin Atakan Varol* Linear Negative Stiffness Honeycomb Actuator with Integrated Force Sensing
Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM).
- "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020, Paris). The paper presents a new approach for sensing normal, shear, and torsional loads with an optical fiber-based tactile sensor which detects the displacements of a colored pattern.
D. Baimukashev, Z. Kappassov and H. A. Varol, "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2618-2625, April 2020.
doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972876
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8990014&isnumber=8932682
- "VibeRo: Vibrotactile Stiffness Perception Interface for Virtual Reality" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
2019 year
- Tactile Robotics Lab presented its work to public during Nazarbayev Univ. Open Day in the cultural capital of Kazakhstan -- Almaty. During 3 days prospective students could get in touch with the projects of the lab. PI of the lab delivered 3 talks. Around 60 prospective students attended the talks.
Prospective students were interested in Robotics and AI ...

Karim Massimov, Head of National Security (KNB), has tested and put on our tactile research prototypes. Tactile Robotics Lab has presented the work at the opening ceremony of Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI). The event was dedicated for appearance of the Massimov's book about AI.

2018 year:
- Best Thesis award
- Nursutlan Nazarbayev visited NU Research Building