Robot skin remembers what it has touched

• Autores: James Urquhart
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3057, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fishing keys from the bottom of a bag or picking up soft fruit are pretty basic tasks for humans. Now they're getting a little easier for robots, too. For a robot to recognize and grasp different objects usually requires complex programming and processing power. But Xiaodong then at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and his colleagues have got around this by developing flexible, skin-inspired sensors that store pressure information about objects they come into contact with.