Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020) - “Sensorized” skin helps soft robots find their bearings: Flexible sensors and an artificial intelligence model tell deformable robots how their bodies are positioned in a 3D environment

Title:
“Sensorized” skin helps soft robots find their bearings

Author:
Rob Matheson

Published:
MIT News, 12 February 2020

From the article:
For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own “sensorized” skin.

To read this article:
http://news.mit.edu/2020/sensorized-skin-soft-robots-0213