arxivcs.RO2026-07-24
Design and Human Evaluation of Tactile Withdrawal Reflexes for a Skin-Covered Robot Arm
Laura Babayeva, Lukas Rustler, Matej Hoffmann
Nociception is a protective biological mechanism that links harmful stimulation to a reaction. This paper investigates artificial nociception for a robotic arm with whole-body tactile sensing. We present a complete pipeline that maps pressure changes from sensitive skin on a robo…