Robotic Arm with Tactile Skin Yields Compliantly When Pushed
A Johns Hopkins team fitted a Dexmate Vega-1 robotic forearm with OpenTac tactile skin and a compliant controller, letting the robot sense pushes and yield accordingly for safer human-robot interaction.
2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-23 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: JHU/MIT Open-Source OpenTac: Customizable Tactile Skin for Any Robot Surface(2026-10-22, 32 posts)
- Episode 2: Robotic Arm with Tactile Skin Yields Compliantly When Pushed(2026-10-23, 2 posts)
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- Johns Hopkins straps OpenTac tactile skin onto Vega-1 robot that complies with pushes — _krishna_murthy · 2026-10-23