Flexible Robot Skin

University of Tokyo investigator have developed an artificial skin for golem that gives them a sentience of touch . Essentially an array of pressure sensors imbed into cheap , flexible material , the prototype skin has about 16 sensors per cm – pretty good , until you realize that human ’s have around 1,500 per centimeter in our fingertips ( although that ’s one of the highest denseness we have ) .

Besides robot hide , the material might be used in railcar posterior and gymnasium carpets to find … imperativeness , I guess . I ’m indisputable they have a good reason . For robots , though , take an raiment of pressure sensation detector could facilitate it in uncomplicated everyday task that need a finer degree of sensibility than can be supply just by measuring electrical resistance at its articulation , like pick up fragile object , or knowing exactly how tightly to stuff a human trachea in threat without completely crushing it .

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