Research & Innovation
A 3D-Printed 'Skin' Gives Humanoid Robots a Sense of Touch, With Just 16 Electrodes
A new paper introduces a 3D-printed, conformal electronic skin for humanoid robots that maps touch and pressure across a whole body using electrical impedance tomography and just 16 electrodes, rather than a dense embedded sensor grid — a geometry-scalable approach to giving robots a real sense of touch.