Skinflow: A soft robotic skin based on liquid transmission

Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and the University of Bristol have recently developed a new soft robotic skin-like sensor that is based on fluidic transmission. This sensor, presented at the second IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) , could have interesting applications in a variety of fields, ranging from robotics to virtual reality (VR).

"Integrating sensors in robotic hands is a difficult task because often, we need to squeeze many components into a limited space," Gabor Soter, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "Our idea was to transmit the sensory signals to other parts of the body, where there is more space for the sensing and processing hardware."

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BRL Research: Soft Robotics