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TUM
PUTS ELECTRIC SKIN IN THE GAME
Professor Gordon Cheng and his team at the Technical University
of Munich (TUM ) have taken their ‘electric skin’ from having 31
hexagonal "skin cells" on a robot to now equipping a humansized
robot with 1,260 cells to create what they claim is the first
autonomous humanoid robot with artificial skin covering its entire
body.
The honeycomb arrangement can measure proximity, pressure,
temperature and acceleration and even have sensors on the soles
of the robots’s feet.