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ReSkin Sensors Provide Sense of Touch Enough to Feel Layers in Cloth

Description

Article documenting new research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) that uses ReSkin, an open-source touch-sensing “skin” made of thin elastic polymer embedded with magnetic particles to measure three-axis tactile signals in cloth, to teach robots how to feel layers of cloth and effectively fold them rather than relying on vision sensors alone.

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For More Information Contact

David Held – Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Bibliography

Federoff, S. (2022, October 26). Robots that can feel cloth layers may one day help with laundry. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Retrieved January 10, 2023, from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/robots-folding-laundry