Open tactile skins like Johns Hopkins' OpenTac ease robot touch design, durability is next bottleneck
_krishna_murthy · x · 2026-10-27
A reshared take argues that open tactile skins like Johns Hopkins' OpenTac make touch easier to design for any robot surface. The next bottleneck is durability: sensing films and protective coatings on curved, flexing surfaces need a repeatable process and device-level testing before humanoids ship at volume.
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