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Tactile sensor lets robots gauge objects’ hardness and manipulate small tools (kurzweilai.net)
45 points by jonbaer on June 24, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Nice. Camera ICs are so cheap now you can do touch that way. There have been lots of attempts to do touch-sensitive robot skin with things such as custom silicon arrays of strain gauges. Too expensive in small volume.

(The price of robot force-sensing devices is insanely high due to low volume. That's why robots have inadequate touch sensors. I built a force-sensing wrist out of a 3DConnection six-DOF knob input device.)




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