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Fig. 01 Half cut-away of the arm sleeving. The hollow void is filled with a gyroid lattice specified in Inkbit Construct.

Robotics Intern at Inkbit Designed and Printed a Robot Arm That Feels What It Touches

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) robotics intern spent eight weeks at Inkbit and left behind a working demo: a contact-sensitive skin and a pressure-sensing fingertip, each printed as a single part on Inkbit Vista. Collaborative robots share space with people. That only works if the machine can tell when contact happens. Alexander Theofilou, an undergraduate robotics student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, joined Inkbit for May and June of 2026 with one directive:

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