Prior to this, high-profile robotics will take a look at the recent collections of touch sensors and related products, exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each new product and the differences in technical routes.
Touch sensors and electronic skin
Race sensing technology: full-size humanoid robot electronic skin system
At the WRC, Race Sensing Technology showcased its world-first full-size human-robot e-skin system, which is based on the Humanoid series of flexible e-skins that cover critical areas of the entire body, such as the foot, ankle, arm, to achieve multi-point pressure sensing, collision detection, step feedback and environmental interaction sensing.
He's a mountain scientist: TS-FT, TS-EST
In August, he released two new touch products, one being the TS-FT multi-mode sensor and the other being the TS-EST multi-mode electronic skin.
Among them, the TS-FT multi-mode sensor introduces temperature sensing based on the original three-dimensional force, proximity sensing, position sensing, and temperature sensing sensors can capture exposure to cold heat changes in less than 3 seconds, with measurement ranges ranging from 40°C to 120°C.
The TS-EST multi-mode electronic skin is designed to cover the entire body of the robot deployment, integrated touch, temperature, proximity sensing mode, power resolution of 0.01N, temperature detection resolution of 0.1°C, proximity sensing distance greater than 1 cm, allowing the robot to complete safety predictions before physical contact.
Warwick: Touch sensors are used in the Elephant Series
On August 19, Huawei released the industry's first flagship performance touch sensors, including the standard model, waterproof model, overload model, high-precision model, microfingerprint model, three-dimensional sensing model, a total of six products, with a range of 15-200N, a life span of ≥ 1 million times, overload capacity of more than 7 times the load surplus, support for multiple shape installations such as claw and fingerprint, as well as diverse applications such as laboratory R&D and industrial sites.
At the moment, the Yamaha series has received the mass production landing verification from the leading integrated engine manufacturers. The critical point is that the Yamaha OmniPicker 3 body claw has been fitted with the Yamaha series to complete mass production, based on this high-safety touch system achieving a 0.1N level of high precision power control.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it.
Also on the first day of the WRC, Pacini's two new touch sensors were officially unveiled. The PX6AX GEN4 is Pacini's fourth-generation professional ITPU multi-dimensional touch sensor, equipped with the world's first true 6D self-development sensor chip, with sub-micro-level transformation capture capability, sub-millimeter-level spatial resolution combined with high-molecular elasticity rapid dynamic response capability, and multi-million-Hz sampling frequency, with complete engraving capability for instantaneous, light and continuous touch events, and extremely high application value in fragile, thin, and small object seizures, as well as in high-difficulty production life scenarios.
Based on the self-developed FUSE chip, the Footrix can achieve precise measurements of the full-base three-dimensional force array and six-dimensional force, real-time sensing of ground hardness and terrain changes, and thus drive robotic dynamic step-optimization strategies, effectively mitigating conservation problems caused by spatial randomization, improving topographic adaptability while significantly reducing step noise.
Huawei Tech X Excellence: Capacitive whole-body electronic skin
At the WRC, Huawei Technologies and Excellence jointly launched the world's first all-body electronic skin with capacity, and Huawei Technologies Electronic Skin has access to a DroidSoul all-body interactive intelligent engine that enables full-body, multi-second touch feedback through hardware bridges to enter the sensory link in real-time, and builds a foundation for service to loved ones in sync with visual, auditory and emotional understanding.
This full-body electronic skin is based on capacitance-sensitive flexible fabric, with a two-layer fabric structure that integrates large area pressure array sensors and clothing, with features such as interference resistance, high precision, achieves 0.1N-level sensitivity and millisecond response, dynamically adapts to the environment and curved shape, tightly matches the robot's body surface, has long-term stable product reliability, and can provide human full-touch sensing and intelligent interaction capabilities for simulated robots.
A number of gloves
Foley's new material: touch data collection gloves
Foley New Materials debuted a new generation of tactile data collection gloves at WRC in conjunction with storage technology. The product is a deep fusion of tactile gesture recognition gloves and tactile sensing gloves, designed to address the critical gap in tactile data gloves in physical intelligence training.
The touch data collection glove uses human hands naturally as its core, by integrating high-density touch sensing units in the fingertips, thumb and wrist areas, distributing hundreds of touch sensing points, and fully supporting full-arm three-dimensional sensing; at the same time, the flexible curved patch design significantly reduces the sensation of wearing straps, ensuring that long-term, large-scale data collection remains naturally comfortable.
Warwick: Gloves for collecting data for visual + tactile + postural + postural
At the WRC, the first-ever launch of the WRC, the Huawei Vision + Touch + Point Positive Data Collection Handset, which uses a pressure resistance + textile hybrid modeling scheme, with a single-handed real sensor number of nearly 1,000 points, sensing points covering the fingers, thumbs, palms and soles, a lightweight design to make touch the core, can simultaneously collect multi-dimensional interaction data, alleviate the shortage of industry touch training samples.
The glove is also equipped with a self-developed touch simulation SDK, with fully aligned virtual performance indicators, simulation data can be directly substituted for real-machine collection, data costs can be reduced by 90%, training efficiency can be increased by 10 times, further opening up the simulation to real-machine landing.
This is the first time I've seen this.
On August 17, Apoptosis Technology released a modular multi-dimensional touchscreen glove called the Magic Glove. The Magic Glove is fully equipped with 15 tracking units, 16 independent touch sensing regions and 1000+ sensor arrays, with a touch module thickness of 2.1mm and sensitivity of up to 10mN.
Most notably, the Magic Glove adds a hard-core base to the touch sensing module, which is due to the fact that Apoptosis has prioritized the cleanliness of the data to avoid interference from the fingers that trigger the glove's self-twisting and stretching when making movements, so that recorded signals come from real external contact.
This is the first time I've ever heard of this game.
On 14 August, Sony Technology officially released the Tacknit Glove G1 deep touch data glove, a glove that uses a single woven form, covers 216 high-density sensing points in the palm of the hand and fingers, which can capture fine-grained changes in intensity; the hardware uses a magnetic-absorption-separated wristband control box design, the glove body can be quickly replaced, adapts to multiple continuous collection tasks, and significantly reduces marginal costs.
On the commercialization path, G1 has been positioned as a standardized industrial consumer product, relying on its own production base, replicating the mature control system of automotive sensor production lines in touch gloves, core wiring preparation, integrated weaving to achieve automated autonomous production, with the goal of reducing the threshold of corporate access to touch data through scale production.
It's the first time I've ever seen it.
On August 14, Pasini released a new generation of five-finger data collection gloves, the PXCap Pro, which uses a lightweight simulation design and supports long wear, weighs 325g, has 17 degrees of freedom, has a maximum scratch diameter of 90mm, a minimum pinch of 2mm, 12V DC power supply, USB communication, VR+ wrist positioning ≤ 5mm.
At the visual end, the wrist is equipped with a 165-degree ultra-wide angle camera to record the interaction between hands and objects in detail, matching the outer perspective with the first perspective easily obscured shortboard; at the joint posture end, the PXCap Pro is equipped with 17±0.15° absolute precision angle encoders to record finger movements.
Glossary of senses: Gloss and touch gloves
On August 21st, Beijing Intelligent Sensing New Materials Limited officially unveiled all-new silicone and composite touch gloves at the WRC stand.
Intel's all-in-one product has more than 1,500 touch points, covering the fingertips, thumbs, and wrists, and can simultaneously detect force and shear force. The data collected by the hardware is also processed in AI superresolution, restoring touch information to ten-point level. The minimum sensing capacity announced by the company is 1g.
This is the first time we've seen this.
On the morning of August 20, TechCrunch officially unveiled the world's first flexible electronic skin touch data collection handset, TachinGlove, developed independently by TechCrunch.
The TachinGlove has a flexible attachment-to-biomatrix distribution design, a net weight of only 75 grams, a single glove integrated 1000-degree sensor point, and is capable of recording precise contact geometry information. In addition, TachinGlove supports wireless mobile collection, can accommodate scenarios such as outdoor operations, and can last up to 6 hours in a single run, further enhancing the generalization and robustness of the model.
The site also unveiled two versions of the TachinGlove Pro and TachinGlove Lite, which further incorporate IMU, EMF technology, and dual-eye and multi-eye Ego support to achieve faster and more accurate full-hand gesture tracking. The Lite version will be released in the form of a bracelet, convenient to wear on fingers and thumbs, for convenient disassembly and replacement. Both products are expected to be officially released in October.
It's the first time I've seen this.
At the WRC, Intelligent Technologies officially unveiled the LivUMI Dex outer-bone multi-mode data collection glove, which combines all-joint encoder directing, close-range visual perception, IMU inertial measurement with DataCube data, and four core technologies that can efficiently collect, analyze, and output high-reliability, standardized, traceable hand gestures and physical contact interaction data.
At the core hardware parameters and sensing capabilities level, the product has 21 hand movement freedoms, achieving 0.01° ultra-high-precision joint angle measurements, capturing micro-joints movement, gesture changes and dynamic trajectories in the hand at milliseconds, data collection requirements for scientific research, industry, household, etc.
