News Finding: The proposed e-skins can be softly, compactly, and reversibly assembled into soft robot frames to activate muscle-like soft actuators without interfering with their soft motions.
Paper Finding: On the other hand, Y data of the nonencoded data suffered an initial degradation (Y data~9 5% at d eskin = 0.01 m) and was markedly exacerbated as d eskin increased (Y data~7 0% at d eskin = 0.95 m).
News Context: The e-skin pair can perform wireless communication of the four-state control signal at a distance of more than 5 m, and the embedded encoding mechanism makes the inter-skin communication noise-tolerant. The proposed e-skins can be softly, compactly, and reversibly assembled into soft robot frames to activate muscle-like soft actuators without interfering with their soft motions. Benefits of this e-skin-mediated soft robotic assembly include coadaptive movement that helps the robot pass through and/or operate in highly confined spaces, whose cross section is even smaller than the robot size.
Paper Context: The result showed that the encoded periodicity helped the amplitude threshold settle at an optimal level and made the system tolerant to harsh noise condition (the minimum Y data was~98.63% measured at d eskin = 0.95 m, the nearest region to a noise source). On the other hand, Y data of the nonencoded data suffered an initial degradation (Y data~9 5% at d eskin = 0.01 m) and was markedly exacerbated as d eskin increased (Y data~7 0% at d eskin = 0.95 m). E-skin-mediated assembly and wireless activation of a soft robotic hand Attractive features of the e-skin pair in terms of softness, light weight, and wireless electronic functionality can lead to design of soft robots that are fully compliant in every part and can be wirelessly activated.