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Figure 1. Schematic illustration of various receptors responsible for vision, perception, touch, taste, smell, and hearing, and potential of soft sensor arrays to mimic their operation with the help of additional interface circuits, data processing, and visualisation techniques. Figure “photoreceptor”, quoted with permission from Murray et al.^[18]; “electroreceptor”, quoted with permission from Kibenge et al.^[19]; “mechanoreceptor”, reprinted with permission from AAAS^[20]; taste receptor, quoted with permission from Chandrashekar et al.^[21]; “olfactory receptor”^[22], and “auditory receptor”^[23].