Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.
Commercializing tactile sensors for robot dexterity
Addressing practical issues such as usefulness, reliability and affordability.
GelSight announces GelSight Mini tactile sensor
GelSight announced the release of the GelSight Mini, a tactile sensor that gives robots the sense of touch.
MIT creates tactile-reactive robot gripper that manipulates cables
MIT CSAIL created a system that uses two robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers to handle cables with unprecedented dexterity.
OmniTact uses micro-cameras for multi-directional tactile sensing
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley recently developed a new multi-directional tactile sensor, called OmniTact, that overcomes some of the limitations of previously developed sensors. OmniTact, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, acts as an artificial fingertip that allows robots to sense the properties of objects it is holding or manipulating. “Our lab…
Machine learning helps researchers build low-cost tactile sensor
We humans have no problem picking up fragile or slippery objects with our hands. Our sense of touch lets us feel whether we have a firm grasp on the object or if it’s about to slip through our fingers, so we can adjust the strength of our grip accordingly. Robot grippers tasked with picking up…