Ep#88: DexSkin: High-Coverage Conformable Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation

Podcast: RoboPapers · Chris Paxton and Michael Cho

Opublikowano: 2026-07-01

Human skin plays an important role in how we interact with the world and robustly manipulate objects. It’s not just important when we can’t see things with out eyes, but when we want to pick up something heavy, or apply a very specific amount of force. So, it makes sense to want to give robots skin. Enter DexSkin: a soft, deformable electronic skin which can be applied across different surfaces and used to cover robot hands or fingers. Suzannah Wistreich and Baiyu Shi talk to us about their work building DexSkin, showing how it’s useful...