{"id":106307,"date":"2020-05-01T02:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-highly-performing-and-efficient-e-skin-for-robotic-applications"},"modified":"2020-05-01T02:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:05:17","slug":"a-highly-performing-and-efficient-e-skin-for-robotic-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-highly-performing-and-efficient-e-skin-for-robotic-applications","title":{"rendered":"A highly performing and efficient e-skin for robotic applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-Y2HW6JcGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen in Germany have recently developed an electronic skin that could help to reproduce the human sense of touch in robots. This e-skin, presented in a paper published in MDPI\u2019s <i>Sensors<\/i> journal, requires far less computational power than other existing e-skins and can thus be applied to larger portions of a robot\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main motivation for developing the e-skin stems from nature and is centered on the question of how we humans interact with our surrounding environment,\u201d Florian Bergner, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. \u201cWhile humans predominantly depend on vision, our sense of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/touch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">touch<\/a> is important as soon as contacts are involved in interactions. We believe that giving robots a sense of touch can extend the range of interactions between robots and humans\u2014making robots more collaborative, safe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bergner and other researchers led by Prof. Gordon Cheng have been developing e-skins for approximately ten years now. Initially, they tried to realize e-skin systems with multi-modal sensing capabilities resembling those of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human skin<\/a>. In other words, they tried to create an artificial skin that could sense light touch, pressure, temperature, and vibrations, while effectively distributing its sensing across different places where tactile interactions occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen in Germany have recently developed an electronic skin that could help to reproduce the human sense of touch in robots. This e-skin, presented in a paper published in MDPI\u2019s Sensors journal, requires far less computational power than other existing e-skins and can thus be applied to larger portions of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}