Figure: Human-like movement of fingers stimulated by bionic taste
Woo Soo Kim’s lab focuses on engineering challenges using Advanced 3D printing technologies. Specially, 3D printed sensors combined with humanoid robot application is one key research activity related to bionics. The Sensing Robot concept covers humanoid fingers, humanoid robot arms, and consumer electronic systems. They use Advanced 3D printing technologies with multiple functional materials to design complex systems with integrated Sensing Robot systems.
T. Kim, M. Kaur, W. S. Kim, Humanoid Robot Actuation through Precise Chemical Sensing Signals, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019, 4, 1900570 integrates a chemical sensor on the tips of fingers that bend to various degrees when they encounter different ion concentrations for the applications such as smart agriculture or buddy robot in senior setting, etc. This could be used to serve bionic devices to give them a wide variety of chemical “taste” buds at the extremities of the body.
