Robot Skin and Computational Overload

There’s a long history of announcements from the robotic community, claiming that “robot skin” has been created. Mostly, these have been unserious, since the huge computational load for managing skin sensation is not part of the story. A few historical examples: https://newatlas.com/smart-robot-skin/55853/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/hairy-artificial-skin-gives-robots-a-sense-of-touch/ Here’s and earlier one from 2010: https://cacm.acm.org/news/87060-robots-with-skin-enter-our-touchy-feely-world/fulltext Cool, but no ability to