NPR's Leila Fadel asks former State Department official Wa'el Alzayat about the prospects of Kurdish forces reaching an agreement to join the Syrian army ahead of an end-of-year deadline.

Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters in the city of Aleppo. This comes as top Turkish officials visited Damascus on Monday to discuss a deal between the government ...

Abstract: In this article, we propose an intrinsic contact force sensing method on an arbitrary surface using six-axis force/torque information. An arbitrary surface is defined by a triangle mesh ...

Abstract: Vision-based tactile sensors offer rich tactile information through high-resolution tactile images, enabling the reconstruction of dense contact force fields on the sensor surface. However, ...