[jjk166]

This is fantastic! One can easily imagine some minor refinements that would allow this to be mass producible with very high accuracy. And the applications are abundant. I imagine you could use space filling curves to make 2D or 3D sensors that could cost-efficiently give robots a sense of touch. Wrapped around something like a flexible tube you could make it directionally sensitive for proprioception. It's easily possible that other things that affect the air gaps like say temperature differences could be detected and localized as well.

[00702]

There are a lot of cool applications indeed! I was able to use it to do gait for a soft robot "leg", but I have to wait for the paper to be published later this year before going into too much detail.