Biography：Dr. Jia Zhang is a full professor at the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System in the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He received doctor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at HIT in 2014. After that, he becomes a full faculty in HIT. Now, his research interesting is focused on the micro/nano fabrication of functional materials and structures for flexible electronics, including flexible electronics for robotics tactile sensor, Flexible and wearable devices, 3D printing for multi-materials. He is the recipient of the Excellent Young Scholars award of NSFC (2021), the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (2015), and the First Prize of Natural Science by Heilongjiang Province (2015/2020). He has published more than 70 papers in Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, with the total citations over 3000. He currently serves as the editorial board member of International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Micromachines.

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC SKINS AND ITS APPLICATION IN HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION

Nowadays, intelligentization is one of significant trends for the developing of robotics. The key of this trend lies in the sensors for feeling and interaction with external environment. Among then, the vision sensing is the most mature, but there is still difficult to deal with various complex conditions involving human-machine interaction and cooperation alone. Therefore, it is urgent to develop tactile sensors for robotics. Flexible electronic device with their high performance, flexible, bending and other advantages, will play an important role in the robotics sensing. The report will reveal the needs of robot intelligent perception, analyze the key technologies in the design and manufacturing of several typical sensors, and review the recent research work of the research group.