GelSight FlexiRay: Breaking Planar Limits by Harnessing Large Deformations for Flexible,Full-Coverage Multimodal Sensing

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The integration of tactile sensing into compliant soft robotic grippers offers a compelling pathway toward advanced robotic grasping and safer human-robot interactions.

• Visual-tactile sensors realize high-resolution, large-area tactile perception with affordable cameras.
• However, conventional visual-tactile sensors rely heavily on rigid forms, sacrificing finger compliance and sensing regions to achieve localized tactile feedback.
• Enabling seamless, large-area tactile sensing in soft grippers remains challenging, as deformations inherent to soft structures can obstruct the optical path and restrict the camera's field of view.