Aimed at robot hands and grippers, Tactaxis from Melexis is a soft tactile sensor prototype that outputs a measure of the 3D force vector acting on its surface. “This improves robots’ hands and grippers, making delicate operations such as fruit picking possible,” according to the Belgian company. Uniquely, it said, it’s gradiometric approach makes it ...

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