Tesla has filed a US patent application for a touch-sensitive “skin” that can be molded around robot fingers and palms, potentially providing humanoid robots with a scalable way of detecting contact, force and pressure.
The application, US 2026/0310299 A1, was published on October 8 and describes a manufacturing process in which tactile sensors can be printed onto flat, flexible materials before being heat-formed into three-dimensional shapes.
The filing was brought to the attention of Robotics & Automation News by patent intelligence publication Patentlyze, which has published an analysis of the application. [Read more…] about Tesla patent reveals touch-sensitive skin for robot hands