MIT researchers have created a ’sensorized’ skin, made with kirigami-inspired sensors, that gives soft robots greater awareness of the motion and position of their bodies. Ryan L. Truby, MIT CSAIL
MIT researchers have created a 'sensorized' skin, made with kirigami-inspired sensors, that gives soft robots greater awareness of the motion and position of their bodies. Ryan L. Truby, MIT CSAIL Flexible sensors and an artificial intelligence model tell deformable robots how their bodies are positioned in a 3D environment. For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own "sensorized" skin. Soft robots constructed from highly compliant materials, similar to those found in living organisms, are being championed as safer, and more adaptable, resilient, and bioinspired alternatives to traditional rigid robots. But giving autonomous control to these deformable robots is a monumental task because they can move in a virtually infinite number of directions at any given moment. That makes it difficult to train planning and control models that drive automation. Traditional methods to achieve autonomous control use large systems of multiple motion-capture cameras that provide the robots feedback about 3D movement and positions.
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