Publications

Automated benchmarking of variable-property soft robotic fingertips to enable task-optimized sensor selection

D. Hardman, Benhui Dai, Q. Guan, A. Georgopoulou, F. Iida, J. Hughes.

Advanced Science, 13(15), e09991 (2026).

Design, characterization, and application of a continuously tunable wavelength spatial frequency domain imaging system for measuring the optical properties of fruits

Y. Gao, Z. Sun, X. Luo, D. Hu, Benhui Dai, Y. Zheng, Y. Ying, L. Xie.

Engineering, 60, 49–64 (2026).

Adhesive double-network granular organogel e-skin

A. Georgopoulou, Benhui Dai, K. S. Yu Chow, J. Hughes, E. Amstad.

Advanced Materials Technologies, 11(7), e02608 (2026).

Language conditioned multi-finger dexterous manipulation enabled by physical compliance and switching of controllers

C. Pan, K. Junge, Benhui Dai, Q. Guan, J. Hughes.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14022 (2026).

Lattice structure musculoskeletal robots: Harnessing programmable geometric topology and anisotropy

Q. Guan*, Benhui Dai*, H. Cheng, J. Hughes.

Science Advances, 11, eadu9856 (2025). Cover article.

BabyBot: Robot with infant-like feeding behaviours and developmental oral skills

Benhui Dai, M. Lavergne, C. Moccand, F. Dionisi, J. Hughes.

npj Robotics, 3, 10 (2025). Heading article.

An optical/electronic artificial skin extends the robotic sense to molecular sensing

Benhui Dai*, Y. Zheng*, Y. Qian, X. Hu, Z. Sun, Z. Ma, G. Bao, H. Wu, J. Hughes, X. Liu, Y. Ying, L. Xie.

npj Flexible Electronics, 9, 87 (2025).

Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled terahertz technology

L. Xie*, C. Criollo*, R. Zhou*, M. Zhang, Benhui Dai, J. Doumani, T. E. Kritzell, J. Yin, W. Geng, Y. Ying, A. Baydin, J. Kono.

Nature Reviews Physics, 7, 487–501 (2025). Cover article.

Inverse co-design of mechanical and sensory properties in soft lattice foams for multifunctional wearables

Q. Guan, Benhui Dai, H. Sonar, J. Hughes.

Advanced Science, e07102 (2025).

3D printing of self-healing longevous multi-sensory e-skin

A. Georgopoulou, S. Lee, Benhui Dai, F. Bono, J. Hughes, E. Amstad.

Communications Materials, 6, 121 (2025).

Control the soft robot arm with its “physical twin”

Q. Guan, H. Cheng, Benhui Dai, J. Hughes.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2025).

Cross-wavelength hierarchical metamaterials enabled for trans-scale molecules detection simultaneously

Y. Wang*, Benhui Dai*, C. Ma, Q. Zhang, K. Huang, X. Luo, X. Liu, Y. Ying, L. Xie.

Advanced Science, 9, 2105477 (2022).

Recent advances in carbon nanotube-based biosensors for biomolecular detection

Benhui Dai, R. Zhou, J. Ping, Y. Ying, L. Xie.

Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 154, 116658 (2022).

Design and test of detecting system for impurities in walnut based on full convolutional neural network algorithm

L. Xie, Benhui Dai, Y. Hong, Y. Ying.

Transactions of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery, 53(5), 385–391 (2022).