Soft Biomimetic Optical Tactile Sensing With the TacTip: A Review

Reproducing the capabilities of human sense touch in machines is an important step enabling robot manipulation to have ease dexterity. A combination robotic technologies will be needed, including soft robotics, biomimetics and high-resolution sensing offered by optical tactile sensors. This considered here as a SoftBOT (Soft Biomimetic Optical Tactile) sensor. article reviews BRL TacTip prototypical example such Topics include relation between artificial skin morphology transduction principles touch, nature benefits shear sensing, 3D printing for fabrication integration into hands, application AI perception control, recent step-change due deep learning. review consolidates those advances from past decade indicate path robots reach human-like