“Sensorized” Skin Helps Soft Robots Find Their Bearings

For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own “sensorized” skin.

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AI sensorized skin
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Flexible sensors and an artificial intelligence model tell deformable robots how their bodies are positioned in a 3D environment.
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