Aug 7 2010
A malleable tactile sensor devised by the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Tokyo, detects dislodgment three dimensionally. Satake Co Ltd, in concurrence with the university, began commercializing this corporeal sensor, for application in home robots.
This particular sensor can identify the direction of a dislocation by auto alteration, and counters impetus such as stroke, twist, push and nip. If this sensor is on the periphery of the robot, it behaves like the human epidermis.
Satake plans to implement a novel business involving the tactile sensor in robots. The sensors will be marketed as “Syokkaku Cube” and several of these sensors will be combined for commercialization as “Syokkaku Pad”. Satake plans to sell the products by October 2010 expecting ¥300 million turn over by 2015.
Source: http://www.satake-group.com