Contextual Collision

摘要

The use of touch in human to human relationships is an important one, as both an emotive and communicative gesture. For a simple rolling robot, touch is accomplished via collision. This work proposes a combination of soft robotics and social robotics to explore the social consequences of intentional collision. It introduces a blowfish-inspired soft robot, which can use retractable silicone spikes for both actuation and social expression.