Towards Large-Area Tactile Sensing Skins:
From Scalable Materials to Embodied Robotic Perception
Location: [Vienna, Austria]
Time: [Afternoon, 1st, June]
About the Workshop
Robotic systems are increasingly expected to operate in unstructured and dynamic environments, where local contact information, global context awareness, and safe human–robot interaction are essential. However, current tactile sensing solutions are often limited to small-area arrays or fingertip sensors, restricting their ability to provide whole-body awareness and robust interaction capabilities. In contrast, biological organisms seamlessly integrate distributed tactile sensing across large skin surfaces to support grasping, locomotion, and environmental interaction with remarkable resilience.
This workshop brings together researchers from robotics, soft materials, and flexible electronics to address the challenges and opportunities of large-area tactile sensing skins. We will explore cutting-edge topics including:
Materials and Fabrication
Printed flexible electronics, soft smart composites, and multimodal sensor integration.
Signal Processing
Calibration techniques for high-density sensor arrays and distributed sensing systems.
Tactile Perception Algorithms
Bridging local contact information with global spatial representations.
Applications
From robotic manipulation and safe human-robot interaction to wearable and assistive devices.
Multi-scale tactile sensing: from material design to robotic perception (AI Generated)
Keynote Speakers
Organizers
Yunqi Huang
University College London
Yingjie Zheng
Zhejiang University
David Hardman
University of Cambridge
Changhao Xu
Stanford University
Perla Maiolino
University of Oxford
Fumiya Iida
University of Tokyo
Thomas George Thuruthel
University College London