Loomia Smart Skin: Tactile Sensing Developer Kit

Here’s What the Kit Includes

Our History of Tactile Sensing

Smart Skin is not a lab prototype. It’s a refined, tested product based on years of R&D and multiple real-world deployments.

• Loomia has been developing flexible tactile sensors since 2018, when it built a glove-based pressure matrix for industrial automation leader Festo to enable a robotic hand to handle soft items like apples and fabrics.

• Selected by a Fortune 50 company for a 1,000+ unit rollout in a next-generation device program that requires custom sensor formats in nontraditional geometries and sensitivity ranges.

• Recently issued Loomia’s 8th patent covering tactile sensing architecture and integration.

This work establishes Smart Skin as a commercially ready sensing platform—field-proven, manufacturable, and available now.

Built for Real-World Humanoid Robotics

Developed using Loomia’s  patented Electronic Layer (LEL), Smart Skin delivers a lightweight, flexible sensing platform designed to integrate with curved, moving, and high-friction surfaces.

Unlike rigid sensors that struggle with real-world geometries, Smart Skin was created specifically for high-motion, complex areas. It enables:

• Precise grip control for delicate objects

• Fine manipulation for dexterous tasks

• Surface-level intelligence for responsive interaction

It is also silver-free and materially optimized to reduce the carbon footprint typically associated with advanced electronic systems.

Informed by Engineers

The Smart Skin kit is the result of insights gathered from over 100 interviews conducted through the NSF I-Corps program, where LOOMIA engaged with roboticists working in humanoid platforms, automation, and medical devices.

While computer vision and AI continue to advance rapidly, Loomia’s research revealed that tactile sensing remains a physical bottleneck in robotics. The team also discovered that pressure sensing was the missing piece in robotic hands and grippers, and that there just weren’t robust, flexible, plug-and-play solutions on the market

Loomia’s Two Sensor Technologies

With the launch of this tactile sensing kit, Loomia is introducing a new, capacitive sensor that can detect touches as low as 1g or 0.01N. This new sensor technology will come in our tactile sensor glove and shows less than 1% drift over time. Our kit will also include an updated version of our resistive sensors, which are ideal for grippers, feet, palms and more. Data comparing our resistive and capacitive sensors are outlined below.