Robotic skin structure and performances for industrial robot comanipulation

The everyday use of robots as collaborative assistance to human workers (cobots) will not be possible until operator safety in robot workspace is guaranteed. Because of their strength and stiffness, efficient security of industrial robots can only be obtained thanks to robotic skin technology. Such a skin must have an optimized response time, cover curved shape and large surface of robot segments, be reliable, simple to build and cost effective. We present such a skin structure with early promising experimental results.