Low-cost fabrication of flexible tactile sensor arrays.

While for vision and audio the same mass-produced units can be embedded in many different systems from smartphones to robots, tactile sensors have to be built in application-specific shapes and sizes. To use a commercially available tactile sensor, it can be necessary to develop the entire system around an existing sensor model. We present a set of open-source solutions for designing, manufacturing, reading and integrating custom application-specific tactile matrix sensors.