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Daniele Pucci on Why Humanoid Robots Need a Sense of Touch
A humanoid robot’s skin can be part of its intelligence.
Daniele Pucci is building around that idea at Generative Bionics.
The company’s co-founder and CEO joins Brian Heater to explain GENE.01’s tactile skin and proximity sensing, and why a robot’s body and AI have to be designed together.
That becomes especially important when a machine is working in direct contact with a person. Pucci describes research using wearables to measure human fatigue, with the goal of having a robot recognize when a worker needs physical assistance.
He also explains why a welding humanoid and a hospital robot…
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