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Robot skin glossary

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Robot skin

A tactile sensing surface that helps a robot detect contact, pressure, shear, slip, or interaction events across hands, grippers, arms, or curved body surfaces.

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Tactile AI

Software and sensing workflows that turn touch data into useful robot signals for grasping, contact response, manipulation, or evaluation analytics.

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E-skin

Electronic skin: a flexible or soft sensor layer designed to measure contact-related signals on non-flat surfaces.

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Slip detection

Detection of object movement relative to a robot finger or gripper, often using shear, vibration, texture, or event-based tactile signals.

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Multimodal tactile sensing

A sensor approach that captures more than one stimulus type, such as pressure and temperature, while managing crosstalk and calibration.

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ROS 2 tactile pipeline

A robotics software path for recording, replaying, transforming, and consuming tactile sensor data with consistent timestamps, frames, and middleware settings.

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Category context

A conservative explanation of how robot skin terminology, applications, and research context relate without implying product availability.

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