Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Robot Skins

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I always think that the next target application of multi touch is robots.

"... there are several possible applications for which something called robot skin might be needed. The first is a flexible human-like skin to cover the bodies of androids or prosthetic devices. "

Source: There's More Than One Way to Skin a Robot (robots.net)

 

Updated November 18, 2009

I googled some more links about robot skins and here are a few of them.

 

What’s funny is that Philips has taken robotskin.com.

 

 


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