Technical Chapter: Robotic Skins
Technical Chapter: Robotic Skins
Technical Chapter: Robotic Skins
ROBOTIC SKINS
APPLICATIONS -
“Future astronauts
exploring another
planet could quickly
construct a robot
using the robotic
skins wrapped
around whatever
deformable
materials they have
access to and stick a
ROBOTIC skins are made from elastic sheets embedded with sensors camera on it, and
and actuators developed in Kramer-Bottiglio's lab. then deploy the
Placed on a deformable object -- a stuffed animal or a foam tube, for robot for exploration
instance -- the skins animate these objects from their surfaces. of small or
The makeshift robots can perform different tasks depending on the dangerous spaces.”
properties of the soft objects and how the skins are applied. We can take In one of the
the skins and wrap them around one object to perform a task --
demonstrations,
locomotion, for example
In tests in the lab, Kramer-Bottiglio and--her
and then
team take them
wrapped off around
the skin and putthe
them
legs on
of aa
different object to perform a different task, such as grasping and moving omniskins are
stuffed animal, and the toy horse moved forward in an awkward manner. A foam tube introduced in which
an object, We can then take those same skins off that object and put
wrapped with a skin was able to inch
them on a forward like a an
shirt to make worm. Andwearable
active a piece device.
of skin a skin is wrapped
connecting two pieces of cardboard could contract, turning the object into a around each of the
rudimentary gripper. four legs of a stuffed
animal horse-kind of
In unpredictable environments like outer space, where unforeseen problems can arise, like pants-and make
this diversity gives the skins a creative advantage over traditional robots that are only it walk
designed for a limited amount of activities.
Sensors embedded along with the actuators can give helpful feedback as well—
wearable skins placed on the back of a man were able to give feedback on his posture.
Credentials:
ARPIT SOM
SHIVSARAN GIRI
GARVIT SRIVASTAVA
AKASH SHUKLA
ANSHUL DWIVEDI