Robots will touch more tenderly when they wear this sensitive skin

Filed Under: TechCrunch on Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Robots increasingly have to interact with ordinary (that is to say, human-focused) objects and environments, and part of that is imitating the extremely delicate and complex human grip. A new type of electronic skin allows a robot to feel not just the pressure from its grip, but whether and in what direction an object is sliding or slipping. Read More