{"id":97315,"date":"2019-10-11T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/sensitive-synthetic-skin-makes-for-hug-safe-humanoid-robot"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:43:20","slug":"sensitive-synthetic-skin-makes-for-hug-safe-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/sensitive-synthetic-skin-makes-for-hug-safe-humanoid-robot","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive synthetic skin makes for hug-safe humanoid robot"},"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>Back in 2011 we looked at an array of small hexagonal plates created to serve as an <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/hexagonal-plate-robotic-skin\/19072\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">electronic skin<\/a> that endows robots with a sense of touch. The team responsible had placed 31 of these hexagonal \u201cskin cells\u201d on a small robot, but now they\u2019ve gone a lot further, equipping a human-sized robot with 1,260 cells to create what they claim is the first autonomous humanoid robot with artificial skin covering its entire body \u2013 even the soles of its feet.<\/p>\n<p>In the eight years since the original touchy-feely robot, Professor Gordon Cheng and his team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have refined the look of the individual sensor cells, but they still boast the same basic capabilities. They\u2019re still hexagonal in shape, allowing them to be placed in a honeycomb arrangement, and they can still measure proximity, pressure, temperature and acceleration.<\/p>\n<p>But the main hurdle the team faced in expanding the number of cells so as to fully cover a human-sized robot was computing power, and it\u2019s here that the team is claiming a breakthrough. Continuously processing data from more than a few hundred sensors quickly overloaded previous systems, so the team took inspiration from an approach employed by the human nervous system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2011 we looked at an array of small hexagonal plates created to serve as an electronic skin that endows robots with a sense of touch. The team responsible had placed 31 of these hexagonal \u201cskin cells\u201d on a small robot, but now they\u2019ve gone a lot further, equipping a human-sized robot with 1,260 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97315","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\/97315","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}