Episode 155 - Dr. Jae Son, Dr. Charles MacLeod, and Stu Shepherd

“Now tactile is an array of information that gives you insight into the contact mechanics between two objects.” Pressure is a scalar value. Force is a vector. Tactile sensing, says Pressure Profile Systems founder Dr. Jae Son, is something else entirely — a map of contact across an entire surface, the same sense humans rely on to pick up a coffee cup without crushing it, and one that most robots still don’t have. In this episode of “Manufacturing Matters,” TECH B2B Marketing’s W...