Researchers develop electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots

Phys.org  June 01, 2018
Skin-like electronic system proposed by researchers in South Korea consists of two-part electronic skins (e-skins) that are designed to perform wireless inter-skin communication for untethered, reversible assembly of driving capability. The physical design of each e-skin features minimized inherent hardness in terms of thickness, weight, and fragmented circuit configuration. The e-skin pair can be softly integrated into separate soft body frames (robot and human), wirelessly interact with each other, and then activate and control the robot. The design is highly compact and shows that the embedded e-skin can equally share the fine soft motions of the robot frame… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

Rendered version of the e-skin pair system for soft robots. Credit: Soft Robotics Research Center, Seoul National University