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Electronic Skin Pressure Mapping

Interactive 3D distributed tactile-sensor array: drag a fingertip, palm, stylus or edge across a dense grid of pressure taxels and watch the live spatial pressure-map heatmap identify the touching object's shape — compared against a single-point force sensor that only ever reports one aggregate number.

Robotics & Kinematics3DModerate60 FPS

Details

CategoryRobotics & Kinematics

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsDrag on the skin panel to move the touch point; buttons select the touching object (fingertip / palm / stylus / edge); Press force slider scales contact depth; Lift off clears the touch; Distributed tactile array toggle switches between the full spatial pressure-map heatmap and a single aggregate-only force-sensor readout.

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A dense grid of individually-addressable tactile sensors ("taxels") tiles a robot's skin panel. Drag a fingertip, palm, stylus or edge across it and watch the live pressure-map heatmap reveal exactly where contact occurred and what shape made it — something no single aggregate force reading can ever tell you.

⚙ Under the hood

A dense grid of individually-addressable tactile sensors (taxels) tiles a robot's skin panel. Drag a fingertip, palm, stylus or edge across it and watch the live spatial pressure-map heatmap localize contact and identify the touching object's shape purely from the pattern — contact area, peak pressure and footprint aspect ratio. Toggle to a single-point force sensor to see the same contact collapse into one blind aggregate number with no spatial information at all.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install