Bosch reveals robot with smart skin that could allow humans to work closer with machines

A new manufacturing robot equipped with smart'skin' could allow humans to work alongside industrial machines with no barrier in between. Bosch demonstrated how its robotic arm, fitted with the electronic sensor skin, can sense when a human enters the'danger zone' and stop moving before an accident occurs. The technology, revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, could even be incorporated into everyday robotics systems to make them far safer. Bosch demonstrated how its robotic arm, fitted with the electronic sensor skin, can sense when a human enters the'danger zone' and stop moving before an accident occurs'This is how a robot can interact with the human out of a cage,' exhibitor Franz Schmidt told Dailymail.com. 'Normally, it can only act in a cage, so as to not hurt a human.