Inflatable Robotic Skin with Internal ToF Sensing Debuts at IROS 2026
nptacek · x · 2026-08-26
Research presented at IROS 2026 introduces an "inflatable whole-body robotic skin." Using an inflatable Baymax costume as the envelope, the system employs distributed internal Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors to detect whole-body contact during dynamic human-robot interaction, alongside kinematics-based point-cloud prediction.
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