Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, School of Mechatronics System Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3, Canada.
Adv Mater. 2021 May;33(19):e2002534. doi: 10.1002/adma.202002534. Epub 2021 Jan 18.
Advanced robotics is the result of various contributions from complex fields of science and engineering and has tremendous value in human society. Sensing robots are highly desirable in practical settings such as healthcare and manufacturing sectors through sensing activities from human-robot interaction. However, there are still ongoing research and technical challenges in the development of ideal sensing robot systems. The sensing robot should synergically merge sensors and robotics. Geometrical difficulty in the sensor positioning caused by the structural complexity of sensing robots and their corresponding processing have been the main challenges in the production of sensing robots. 3D electronics integrated into 3D objects prepared by the 3D printing process can be the potential solution for designing realistic sensing robot systems. 3D printing provides the advantage to manufacture complex 3D structures in electronics in a single setup, allowing the ease of design flexibility, and customized functions. Therefore, the platform of 3D sensing systems is investigated and their expansion into sensing robots is studied further. The progress toward sensing robots from 3D electronics integrated into 3D objects and the advanced material strategies, used to overcome the challenges, are discussed.
先进机器人技术是多个复杂科学和工程领域贡献的结果，在人类社会中具有巨大的价值。通过人机交互中的传感活动，传感机器人在医疗保健和制造业等实际环境中非常理想。然而，在理想的传感机器人系统的开发中仍然存在持续的研究和技术挑战。传感机器人应协同融合传感器和机器人技术。传感机器人的结构复杂性导致的传感器定位几何难题及其相应的处理一直是传感机器人生产的主要挑战。通过 3D 打印工艺制备的 3D 物体中的集成 3D 电子可以成为设计现实感测机器人系统的潜在解决方案。3D 打印具有在单个设置中制造复杂 3D 电子结构的优势，允许设计灵活性和定制功能的轻松实现。因此，研究了 3D 感测系统的平台，并进一步研究了其扩展到感测机器人的应用。讨论了将 3D 电子集成到 3D 物体中并用于克服挑战的先进材料策略，朝着传感机器人的发展方向取得了进展。
