‘Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling’: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics
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High-fidelity e-skin plus edge processing shrinks the gap between industrial robots and human-like manipulation—once price curves bend, whole classes of “too delicate” tasks become automatable. If you run physical operations, start mapping workflows where tactile sensing is the blocker, because vendor roadmaps are about to make those viable.
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