A sensitive skin for robotic companions featuring temperature, force, and electric field sensors

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1952-1959

  Dan Stiehl, Walter ^a   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi modal processing; Robotic companions; Sensitive skin; Somatic alphabet; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MACHINE DESIGN; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

MULTI MODAL PROCESSING; SENSITIVE SKINS; SOMATIC ALPHABET; TACTILE SENSING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34250647382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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