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  • 10/15/2015

BBC World News features robotics research from TUM

BBC "Horizons" highlights artificial skin for robots

The current episode of "Horizons" on BBC World News focuses on technology inspired by nature – including sensitive artificial skin developed by Philipp Mittendorfer at TUM's Institute for Cognitive Systems. On the show, he explains how research with the so-called Cellul.A.R.Skin is opening the way for humanoid, industrial, and service robots to work safely with people in shared environments.

Philipp Mittendorfer with the artificial skin for robots "Cellul.A.R.Skin" (Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM)
Philipp Mittendorfer with the artificial skin for robots "Cellul.A.R.Skin" (Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM)

Watch video : "Artifical Skin – Teaching robots to feel" (5'14 min.), BBC World News, Horizons

The cur­rent ver­sion of the ar­ti­fi­cial skin makes ro­bots so sen­sitive they not only avoid poten­tially harm­ful con­tact but can even be gui­ded with a feath­er. The cir­cuitry and al­go­rithms be­hind it can easily be in­te­grated into other ap­proaches, ran­ging from tra­di­tional sys­tem-on-chip tech­no­lo­gy to prin­ted or­ga­nic se­mi­con­duc­tors.

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