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HandBottle

HandBottle

This demonstration presents a soft robotic hand with integrated, distributed tactile sensing, designed to enable safe and adaptive physical interaction. The hand draws inspiration from key features of the human hand, including a compliant palm, an opposable thumb, and a multi-material structure that balances structural robustness with intrinsic adaptability. This combination allows the hand to conform naturally to objects and interactions, reducing the need for complex control strategies. The system is fabricated using multi-material 3D printing in a single, monolithic process. This approach enables the direct integration of tactile sensors during manufacturing, eliminating the need for post-assembly and improving the overall robustness and reliability of the system. The embedded sensing provides continuous feedback across the hand’s surface, allowing it to detect and respond to contact in a distributed manner. During the demonstration, the hand’s tactile response is visualised in real time on a monitor (or the slide panel). As the hand is touched, users can observe how contact is detected and spatially represented across the surface. This provides an intuitive illustration of how touch can be used to inform interaction, supporting safer and more responsive robotic behaviour in applications involving close human contact.

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    Soft robotic hand for adaptive touch-based human-robot interaction
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In person
7 July 2026
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11:30 - 11:45
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
AWST - Perth, Australia
Embodied intelligence for security and well-being

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