Publications

Journal Articles

FibTac: A Fiber-Based Pneumatic Gripper with Embodied Tactile Sensing

Sheeraz Athar, X. Zhang, M. R. I. Prince, V. G. Duffy, Yu She

npj Robotics, vol. 4, art. 47, Nature Portfolio, 2026

Nature Portfolio🏅 IROS 2026 Best Paper Finalist

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TacScope: A Miniaturized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Surgical Applications

M. R. I. Prince, Sheeraz Athar, P. Zhou, Yu She

Advanced Robotics Research, Wiley, 2025

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VibTac: A High-Resolution, High-Bandwidth Tactile Sensing Finger for Multimodal Perception

Sheeraz Athar, X. Zhang, J. Ueda, Y. Zhao, Yu She

IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 18, pp. 507–518, 2025

🥈 ASME MRC 2nd Prize

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VisTac: Towards a Unified Multimodal Sensing Finger for Robotic Manipulation

Sheeraz Athar, G. Patel, Z. Xu, Q. Qiu, Yu She

IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 20, pp. 25440–25450, 2023

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Conference Proceedings

Vacuum-Driven Auxetic Switching Structure and Its Application on a Gripper and Quadruped

S. Liu, Sheeraz Athar, M. Y. Wang

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

Patents

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Trimodal Underwater Robot: Integrated Drifting, Gliding, and Thrusting Platform

Sheeraz Athar, A. Patel, S. Shelar, C. Hillyer, N. Nguyen, V. Vivek, Yu She

Patent in preparation, Purdue University, 2026

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FibTac: A Pneumatic Fiber-Based Tactile Gripper for Embodied Sensing and Manipulation

Sheeraz Athar, Yu She

Patent in preparation, 2025