Liquid metal composite tactile sensor

触觉感应电子皮肤是智能机器人抓手和神经假肢的关键使能技术。然而，传统的电子皮肤在滑移感和受力方向感等方面还不够发达。因此，本项目旨在模仿人体皮肤结构，开发一种高灵敏度的液态金属电子皮肤，该电子皮肤可以实现高性能的多重触觉感知能力，包括法向力解耦和滑移检测。预期结果将使未来的机械臂和假肢能够检测复杂的力以进行精确操作，这将为先进制造业提供好处，并带来显着的经济和社会效益。

Tactile sensing electronic skin is a key enabling technology for smart robotic grippers and neuroprosthetics. However, traditional electronic skin is still underdeveloped in sensing of slip and force direction. Therefore, this project aims to imitate human skin structure to develop a highly sensitive liquid metal-enabled electronic skin that can achieve high-performance multiple tactile sensation capabilities, including normal-tangential force decoupling and slip detection. The expected outcome will enable future manipulator and prosthetics to detect complex forces for precision manipulation, which will provide benefits to advanced manufacturing and bring significant economic and social benefits.