Kyungseo Park

Mimicking human touch just got easier: a new soft robotic skin uses magnets and AI to pinpoint contact with high accuracy, paving the way for safer and more intuitive human-robot interactions.

Fusing tactile skin sensors with motor currents lets robots feel contact forces more accurately than either sensor alone, even while moving.

Marrying EIT with pneumatics overcomes EIT's sensitivity limitations, paving the way for accurate and scalable whole-body tactile sensing in robots.