{"id":140314,"date":"2022-06-09T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/biomimetic-elastomeric-robot-skin-has-tactile-sensing-abilities"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:02:22","slug":"biomimetic-elastomeric-robot-skin-has-tactile-sensing-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/biomimetic-elastomeric-robot-skin-has-tactile-sensing-abilities","title":{"rendered":"Biomimetic elastomeric robot skin has tactile sensing abilities"},"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\/ErKtLqmhz0o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, working with one colleague from MIT and another from the University of Stuttgart, has developed a biomimetic elastomeric robot skin that has tactile sensing abilities. Their work has been published in the journal Science Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Roboticists continue to work on improving robot abilities and to make them more human-like. In this new effort, the researchers gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot+arm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot arm<\/a> the ability to detect such sensations as a pat, tickling, wind, or something stroking its surface. They accomplished this by partially imitating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human skin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new robot <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skin<\/a> is multi-layered, like human skin, to allow for different functions. The top layer is made of a rubber-like polymer resembling human skin. Beneath that, the researchers added a hydrogel to imitate the human epidermis. They chose a hydrogel because it not only deforms when pressed, but jiggles when bumped. By embedding sensors to detect these reactions, the skin is able to sense things like a finger press by monitoring the pressure of the hydrogel and the direction of its movement. If something taps against it, the system senses and measures <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/ripples\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ripples<\/a> in the hydrogel to gauge what the tap felt like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, working with one colleague from MIT and another from the University of Stuttgart, has developed a biomimetic elastomeric robot skin that has tactile sensing abilities. Their work has been published in the journal Science Robotics. Roboticists continue to work on improving robot abilities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140314","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}