From CySkin to ProxySKIN: Design, Implementation and Testing of a Multi-Modal Robotic Skin for Human-Robot Interaction.

The Industry 5.0 paradigm has a human-centered vision of the industrial scenario and foresees a close collaboration between humans and robots. Industrial manufacturing environments must be easily adaptable to different task requirements, possibly taking into account the ergonomics and production line flexibility.

Prototypes of newly conceived inorganic and biological sensors for health and environmental applications.

This paper describes the optimal implementation of three newly conceived sensors for both health and environmental applications, utilizing a wide range of detection methods and complex nanocomposites. The first one is inorganic and based on matrices of calcium oxide, the second is based on protein arrays and a third one is based on Langmuir-Blodgett laccase multi-layers. Special attention was paid to detecting substances significant to the environment (such as carbon dioxide) and medicine (drug administration, cancer diagnosis and prognosis) by means of amperometric, quartz crystal microbalance with frequency (QCM_F) and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM_D) technologies.

Recombinant laccase: II. Medical biosensor.

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technology was used to build a high-sensitivity enzyme-based biosensor for medical purposes. Recombinant fungal laccase from Rigidoporous lignosus, as previously described, was used to catalyze a widely used antidepressant in a micromolar range, namely, clomipramine. The topological properties of the laccase thin film were characterized via LB π-A isotherm and AFM (mean roughness 8.