Tesla Doubles Down on Robot Touch: DeepSkin's Decade of Work Targets Thin-Film Tactile Sensing

On October 8, Tesla published a patent for a 3D flexible tactile sensor array for humanoid robots, with a scalable manufacturing method written into the title, merging sensing and manufacturing into a single approach. The article uses DeepSkin as an example to explain the thin-film tactile sensing field: relying on high-density thin-film electrodes and its own tactile chips, DeepSkin has achieved 9,216-point and 16,384-point tactile arrays, supports up to about 20,000 sensing points, a chip-level readout rate of 200 Hz, and can control sensing film thickness to within 500 micrometers.