Tianhong Catherine Yu

RobotSweater: Scalable, Generalizable, and Customizable Machine-Knitted Tactile Skins for Robots

Tactile sensing is essential for robots to perceive and react to the environment. However, it remains a challenge to make large-scale and flexible tactile skins on robots. Industrial machine knitting provides solutions to manufacture customiz-able fabrics. Along with functional yarns, it can produce…