Episode 9: E-skin detects direction of applied pressure

MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast · May 3, 2019 · 5m

Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Zhenan Bao of Stanford University about her research team’s development of a biomimetic soft electronic skin (e-skin) composed of an array of capacitors capable of effectively measuring and discriminating shear force in real time. Read the abstract in Science Robotics. CHEN: Zhenan Bao is a professor at Stanford University whose research team developed this robot. She says the key design of the robot is a network of force sensors on its fingertip that tell the robot when to retract. BAO: Without sensor feedback, the robot would not know how much it can…