RobotSweater: Scalable, Generalizable, and Customizable Machine-Knitted Tactile Skins for Robots

Understand

Tactile sensing is essential for robots to perceive and react to the environment.

• However, it remains a challenge to make large-scale and flexible tactile skins on robots.
• Industrial machine knitting provides solutions to manufacture customizable fabrics.
• Along with functional yarns, it can produce highly customizable circuits that can be made into tactile skins for robots.