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Artificial Skin - A robot's personal touch
With robotic systems moving out of isolated working environments and into our everyday life the need for advanced sensory capabilities increases. Pressure-sensitive skin-like coatings allow robots to interact in a secure and much more precise manner with their surroundings. Getting direct tactile feedback from, say, the finger tips of a robotic hand, enables the robot to adjust the force of its grip and detect slippage of the grasped object. Another application area is human prosthetics where a pressure sensitive skin could be used to provide tactile information from the artificial limb to the patient.
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