The company Touchlab has developed a thinner-than-human electronic skin technology with easy accessibility capabilities for both rigid and flexible robots. This innovation allows robots to “sense in real time” sensations that humans consider everyday, such as pressure, location and direction.
Touchlab’s smart electronic skin
The Scottish company, founded in 2018 by Dr. Zaki Hussein, has successfully introduced its synthetic skin technology into important markets such as logistics and fulfillment, humanoid robotics, healthcare and even nuclear decommissioning.
Moreover, Touchlab’s futuristic vision in the field of robotics is robotics field has secured it a place among the 20 finalists in the prestigious ANA Avatar XPrize global competition, with a $10 million prize. This recognition is mainly due to the development of a full-body tactile telerobot, designed to translate human presence to remote locations in real time.
In addition, the company has secured an initial investment of $4.4 million from Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s largest and most active early-stage investors. This funding establishes Touchlab in a position to aspire to be a technology reference in Scotland.
The introduction of the company’s technologies and implementations. Source: Touchlab.
By merging the human sense of touch with robotic capability, an exciting opportunity to study technological limits is created. The inclusion of Touchlab in the Startups 100 Index 2023 demonstrates its potential and development, as it prepares what once seemed futuristic is now a reality.
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