Sensitive Robot Skin

Fluid‐Driven Soft CoboSkin for Safer Human–Robot Collaboration: Fabrication and Adaptation. Wenzheng Heng ,  Geng Yang, Gaoyang Pang, Zhiqiu Ye, Honghao Lv, Juan Du, Guodong Zhao, Zhibo Pang.

First published : 22 March 2021

In article number 2000038, Geng Yang and co‐workers present a fluid‐driven soft robot skin with sensing and actuating function that is successfully applied to a collaborative robot.

The two arms illustrated on the cover attempt to express the unintended human‐robot collision and the contact force sensing process of the CoboSkin.

The Tai Chi diagram is composed of an array of two key enabling components of the CoboSkin, including the sensitive cells for force sensing and actuating cells for stiffness control. The Tai Chi diagram represents the harmonious relationship not only between humans and robots during human‐robot collaboration, but also between the sensitive function and controllable stiffness of the CoboSkin.

Fluid‐Driven Soft CoboSkin for Safer Human–Robot Collaboration: Fabrication and Adaptation.

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