To Robots connected a sweater – so they received tactile sense

And lovely and functionally Scientists from Universities Carnegie-Mellon developed a hi-tech sweater under the name RobotSweater which allows Industrial robot to feel physical contact with subjects or people. Photo: Carnegie Mellon University the Team under the leadership of associate professors James Thomas MakKann and to Changl Liu created clothes from three layers materials. The top and bottom layers are made of a usual nylon yarn with strips from the metallized conducting threads, and the center represents isolating grid. When pressure, conducting strips is put upon a RobotSweater sweater...