Robotic Manipulation and Mobility: Touch

Matei Ciocarlie’s Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) lab works on robotics, looking to discover how artificial mechanisms can interact with the world as skillfully as biological organisms. The lab’s main interest is building robots that can operate in new, unforeseen situations, expressing intelligence through physical interaction with their environment.

Here we look at implementing the sense of touch. To match the capability of human hands, robots need to sense shape, size, temperature, vibration, texture, and proprioception, as well as how much force is applied.