Meta's ultra-thin synthetic skin for robots enables them to 'feel' objects to build its metaverse

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday that the company has designed a new synthetic skin for robots that could enable the machines to help build the company's metaverse. A development collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, ReSkin lets robots'feel' objects to know how much or little force should be used to perform tasks, such as gripping or moving small objects. The skin is up to three millimeters thick and can be used for more than 50,000 interactions, while also having a high temporal resolution of up to 400Hz and a spatial resolution of one millimeter with 90 percent accuracy. ReSkin is also inexpensive to produce, costing less than $6 each at 100 units and even less at larger quantities, Facebook AI shared in a blog post. Abhinav Gupta, a research scientist at Meta, said on a media call Friday robots that can feel will help the machines understand what humans are doing.