Nerve Instruments
Give your robots a sense of touch.
Soft sensors shaped to your gripper, hand, or a human glove. Contact, pressure, shear, flex, and motion.
Shapes
Touch that fits the hand you already have.
Send the gripper or hand. We shape the sensing fabric and run the cables out to your controller.
Signals
What a sense of touch can mean.
We make the sensing fabric. We do not make the robot hand. Put it on a gripper, or on a glove worn by a person.
01
ContactWhen and where something touches.
02
PressureHow hard the grasp is pressing.
03
ShearSlip and slide across the surface.
04
FlexHow a finger or joint bends.
05
MotionWrist or tool motion from an IMU.
06
LayoutWhich of these you want, and how many channels.
Two pads with contact and shear works. A full hand with all of the above works too.
Placement
Give the robot touch, or capture it from a person.
Same sensors. Two places to put them.
01 · ROBOT
On your gripper or handGive the robot a sense of touch during grasps: contact, pressure, and shear on the contact faces.
02 · HUMAN
On a personWear the glove while doing the task. Capture contact, pressure, shear, flex, and motion to train the hand.
Contact
Want a sense of touch on your hardware?
Send the gripper or hand. We will fit the sensor.