Electronic Skin-Integrated Soft Robotic Hand

Abstract

For comfortable and convenient human life, human-interactive and communicative robot has attractive attention from industrial to home-use applications. One of human-friendly robotic structures is pneumatic balloon type soft robots using mainly silicone rubber operated by compressed air. In this study, we develop a tactile pressure sensor array integrated with pneumatic soft robotic hand to monitor tactile pressure like a human skin. The important advance of this study is to integrate flexible sensors embedded in soft robotic hand without sacrificing softness and flexibility.