Since the beginning of robotics, enabling a sense of touch that is similar to human sense has been the aspiration for every roboticists. Despite all efforts during the past 30 or so years, the solution to date robots with the true sense of touch are still missing. In this talk, I will present all the necessary challenges in our attempt to an end-to-end solution to enable robots with the complete sense of touch. The talk will cover a human multi-modal tactile sensor; the self-organisation of large numbers of connected tactile sensors; the optimized handling of a large amount of tactile information; to the sensitive control of robots covered with smart tactile skin. Several examples will be given during this talk.     «

Since the beginning of robotics, enabling a sense of touch that is similar to human sense has been the aspiration for every roboticists. Despite all efforts during the past 30 or so years, the solution to date robots with the true sense of touch are still missing. In this talk, I will present all the necessary challenges in our attempt to an end-to-end solution to enable robots with the complete sense of touch. The talk will cover a human multi-modal tactile sensor; the self-organisation of lar...     »