全球首个诊脉灵巧手亮相,打造它的公司却说自己只做触觉
TL;DR - Chinese startup Youren Intelligence unveiled a robotic dexterous hand that can perform pulse diagnosis, showcasing its multi-mechanism tactile sensors. The company argues that embodied AI needs reliable, control-ready tactile signals—not merely larger datasets.
- The fingertip sensors combine capacitive, piezoresistive, and piezoelectric mechanisms to capture static pressure, deep force, vibration, slip, and transient impacts.
- A gradient-stiffness structure and free-form multimaterial printing enable sensitive, overload-resistant “skin” that conforms to curved and irregular surfaces.
- The system performs pulse-pattern analysis on-device and uses cloud-based traditional Chinese medicine knowledge for further interpretation; clinical data collection and accuracy improvements remain underway.
- Its CrediTac framework targets tactile data usable across both low-frequency perception and high-frequency force-control loops, although the claimed 99.9% reliability is presented as a delivery goal rather than a demonstrated result.