robotic skin

Researchers have presented SoTa, a low-cost capacitive tactile skin that can cover an entire human or robot hand, providing full-hand touch sensing. The work is described in a paper on arXiv in the robotics category. Affordable, full-coverage tactile sensing is seen as a step toward more dexterous robots and better wearable or prosthetic devices, which is drawing attention from the robotics community.

Researchers have unveiled a walking robotic skin that can transform ordinary metal surfaces into a source of power, eliminating the need for an onboard battery. The material is described as a skin-like layer that both moves across surfaces and harvests energy from them, suggesting potential uses for small robots and devices that operate without charging.