Fig. 5: Tele-haptic system demonstration.

a Schematics of integrated tele-haptic system interacting operators and soft grippers. Real image of an artificial organ in the storage box (inset). Scale bar, 10 cm. b Schematics of MDPS attached on a soft gripper with 4 fingers. c Photos of actuators and the pneumatic soft gripper. Scale bars, 5 cm. d Sequential images of two different tele-medical situations. e Displacement of vibrating actuators tracked by laser scanning vibrometer under operation.