Liquid metal composite tactile sensor

触觉传感电子皮肤是智能机器人抓取器和神经假肢的关键技术。然而，传统的电子皮肤在滑动和力方向的传感方面仍然不发达。 因此，该项目旨在模仿人类皮肤结构，开发一种高灵敏度的液态金属电子皮肤，可以实现高性能的多种触觉感知能力，包括法向-切向力解耦和滑动检测。预期成果将使未来的机械手和假肢能够检测复杂的力进行精确操作，这将为先进制造业带来好处，并带来显著的经济和社会效益。

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.