Two Tactile BOMs for Dexterous Hands: Piezoresistive Film vs Camera-in-Gel Fingertips
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Loading videoA Shenzhen supply-chain take on dexterous-hand tactile sensing: piezoresistive film heatmaps already ship in tens of thousands of sets, while camera-in-gel visuotactile fingertips are a separate stack of elastomer, printed dot markers, a tiny module, a calibration jig and spare tips. The demo overlay shows a 320x240 marker field at 100 Hz, resolving 0.1 N on a paperclip and 20 N on a spray can. When speccing a hand, ask which contact layer ships in the unit you can buy, and what fails first: the motor or the pad.
Category: perception
Author: @shenzhenfoundry
Date: 2026-09-13T00:00:00
Duration: 55.008s
