First Autonomous Humanoid Robot with Artificial Skin - WebSystemer.no

A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under the guidance of Professor Gordon Cheng has developed artificial skin for the whole body of a humanoid robot. The artificial skin even covers the soles of the feet of the H-1 Robot. This is, however, not their first attempt giving artificial skin to robots. Eight years ago in 2011, the same team had equipped a smaller robot with 31 of these hexagonal "skin cells." They have outdone themselves with the latest endeavor -- putting 1260 of these hexagonal skin cells on a humanoid robot, providing a total of 13,000 sensors.