Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Touchless interactive teaching of soft robots through flexible bimodal sensory interfaces

  • Wenbo Liu,
  • Youning Duo,
  • Jiaqi Liu,
  • Feiyang Yuan,
  • Lei Li,
  • Luchen Li,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Bohan Chen,
  • Siqi Wang,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Yuchen Liu,
  • Yanru Mo,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Bin Fang,
  • Fuchun Sun,
  • Xilun Ding,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Li Wen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32702-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Soft robots are challenging to model and program. Non-specialists face non-negligible obstacles when working with soft robots to perform tasks. Here, the authors propose a method to interactively teach soft robots complex motions through flexible touchless and tactile multimodal sensors.