Scientists last month unveiled an artificial skin that enables robots to feel and respond to physical contact.
Scientists last month unveiled an artificial skin that enables robots to feel and respond to physical contact, a skill that will be needed as they come in increasingly close contact with people.In 2017, manufacturers worldwide used roughly 85 industrial robots per 10,000 employees, according to a report by the International Federation of Robotics. The same report predicts the global supply of industrial robots to grow 14% per year until 2021.
Mimicking this, the team covered a human-size autonomous robot with more than 13,000 sensors from shoulder to toe, that are able to detect temperature, acceleration, proximity and pressure."These [factors] are fundamental to sense in humans... [they] are what make interactions between human and human very safe," says Cheng.The team is currently working on creating smaller sensor cells that could be produced in bulk.Some scientists are skeptical of its scalability.
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