‘Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling’: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics

From Lab Curiosity to Robot Standard: How Electronic Skin Is Shedding Its High Price Tag

Robots have mastered vision and language. Touch remains their blind spot. Without it, even the most advanced machines fumble delicate objects, risk damaging patients in care settings or fail to register when something goes wrong. A new generation of electronic skin aims to change that. And early signs suggest the technology, long confined to research labs at steep expense, stands ready to reach commercial viability faster than many expected. Tec…

‘Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling’: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics

Despite mammoth advanced in artificial intelligence and computer vision, and a slew of humanoid robots either being piloted or hitting parts of the market, there’s still one major challenge that machines need to overcome.It’s tactility, sensation, knowing how to hold an object. Picking up a strawberry, for example, a robot might not know how much pressure to apply, whether it’s secure, slipping, or about to be crushed. It’s something that we hum…