Tacterion

Credit:
PR

Tacterion markets tactile sensors in form of a polymer-based artificial skin. Applications arise in the field of Robotics, Medicine and Human-Machine-Interaction.

  
DLR key technologies
tactile sensors
date of foundation
2014
founders
• Michael Strohmayr
• Daniel Strohmayr
sponsoring
DLR Technologiemarketing, Helmholtz Enterprise
website

Details

Tacterion is a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. The team formed in 2014. Since 2007 research was conducted at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) that lead to the development of the tacterion technology - a new kind of tactile sensor. Tacterion offers a unique, patent-protected technology: a tactile sensor in form of a polymer-based artificial Skin. The tactile sensor can detect the slightest pressure on a complex shaped surface. The fields of application are manifold: in Robotics, in MedTech or as a new kind of input device in Human-Machine-Interaction.

Publication

  • Michael Strohmayr, "Development and Analyses of a bio-inspired Tactile-Sensor",  Masterarbeit TU München, 2007. [elib]