“…A wide variety of such pads have been developed in the past for applications in robotics and medicine [2], using resistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, or optical elements to detect force [3], [4], [5]. These pads have often been placed in electronic gloves in order to monitor human skills and behavior during manipulation, perform teleoperation, and interact with machines and virtual environments [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].…”