yep. and with the western funding model, how many hardware iterations can you do before you run out of runway?
reply> Current generation tactile sensors cost a couple thousand $ PER FINGER, and have a real world MTBF of hours. The cost can be solved with economy of scale. The fragility is harder.
replyAre we talking about experimental laboratory ones here? What happens when the Alibaba players start getting into the game? They have plenty of humanoid robots.
i think you can get some good surface for a few hundred $$ / few fingers here
replyHow much more sensitive do you need to be compared to say a standard mobile capacitive screen and those are essentially dirt cheap at this point.
replyCapacitive touchscreens are not tactile in any way whatsoever. They are purely electrical, and there are plenty of things (actually, most things, I'd say) which are not sufficiently capacitive to be detected by such approaches. You usually need to measure physical deformation instead, which is much more difficult to do precisely. (There are capacitive approaches to that, but they don't work like a touchscreen)
replyI'm picturing humanoid robots having to operate in pairs so they can constantly fix each other.
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