EAGER: Flexible and compressible e-Skin integrated with soft magnetic coil based ultra-thin actuator and…

Overview

Replication of Natural Skin characteristics is critically important for smooth operations of Robots. The touch sensory feedback from skin can allow robots to help elderly with daily tasks, and to safely interact with real world objects (e.g., grasping of fragile objects). Likewise, skin on surgical tools can allow clinicians to remotely feel the body parts to enable new researc…