#1 Engineers integrate internal robotic tactile sensors
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A group led by Robert Shepherd, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and principal investigator of Organic Robotics Lab, has published a paper describing how stretchable optical wave guides act as curvature, elongation and force sensors in a soft robotic hand.
Doctoral student Huichan Zhao is lead author of "Optoelectronically Innervated Soft Prosthetic Hand via Stretchable Optical Wave guides," which is featured in the debut edition of Science Robotics. The paper published Dec. 6; also contributing were doctoral students Kevin O'Brien and Shuo Li, both of Shepherd's lab.
