Sestosenso develops technologies for next generations of collaborative robots capable of self-adapting to different time-varying operational conditions and capable of safe and smooth adaptation from autonomous to interactive when human intervention is required either for collaboration or training/teaching. The project proposes a new sensing technology from the hardware and up to the cognitive perception and control levels, based on networks of embedded proximity and tactile sensors on the robot body, providing a unified proxy-tactile perception of the environment, required to control the robot actions and interactions, safely and autonomously. Within the project, the same technologies are also applied to wearable devices (like exoskeletons) to provide the user with better spatial awareness and to enforce safety in critical human-robot interactive tasks.
Use Case 3
Agricultural harvesting via wearable devices and collaborative mobile manipulators
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Sestosenso featured on IROS 2025 keynote
At IROS 2025 in October, which attracted over 7000 attendees, Perla Maiolino delivered a keynote to a packed room of approximately 500 people, with the tal...
Promotional Optoskin video
Several Sestosenso partners have produced a video that explains one of the new technologies developed during the project: Optoskin, a new tactile and press...
OptoSkin at European Researchers’ Night
We showcased OptoSkin — the Sestosenso project’s optical tactile sensing platform — during European Researchers’ Night at the Institute of Solid State Phys...
Sestosenso featured at Huawei Optical Technologies Innovation Workshop 2025
Sestosenso researchers were invited to the Huawei Optical Technologies Innovation Workshop 2025, on 23rd of September 2025, in Jena (Germany), to present t...