Hardware Product Specification

HP01 Fabric Tactile Glove

A wearable layer of fabric electronic skin — flexible pressure points are woven into the textile itself, with no rigid sensing components. The standard configuration puts 174 points across the palm and every finger joint, feeding contact pressure back for dexterous robot manipulation and tactile data collection; point count and zoning can be tailored per project.

Left: the all-fabric glove itself. Right: the live point cloud in the host software, where pressure intensity drives point size, lift and brightness at once.

Point Layout

A layer of electronic skin: 174 points where contact actually happens

The points are not spread evenly — they follow how force actually lands during a grasp: 99 across the palm for the main holding load, a 3 × 3 patch of 9 on every fingertip pad for pinch contact, and 6 more on the second and third phalanges to track wrap and curl.

Palm

99

The main load-bearing region in a grasp, with the highest point density — resolving the difference between heel, centre and knuckle loading.

Fingertip pad

3 × 3

A nine-point array on each fingertip pad covers the primary contact patch for pinching and fine manipulation, resolving where within the pad contact lands.

Phalanges

6

Six points on the second and third phalanges track how the finger wraps around an object — feeding grasp-posture and slip detection.

Every crossing is a pressure point

The sensing layer is a woven row-and-column matrix in which every crossing is an independent pressure point, with all traces gathered into a flexible tail at the wrist. Because it is woven, point count, spacing and zoning can all be changed per project — 174 is simply the standard configuration.

Delivered as a left/right pair. Point numbering maps physical location to data-array index for both hands, so handedness never gets confused during algorithm development.

Applications

Letting a robot know what it is holding

Grasp-force closed loop

Real-time contact pressure feeds the control loop for grasp-force monitoring and modulation — neither crushing nor dropping.

Dataset collection

Worn on a human hand to record dexterous manipulation, paired with action labels, object type and timestamps — a tactile channel for imitation learning and policy training.

Algorithm validation

A validation platform for tactile algorithms: contact-state classification, slip warning, force estimation and contact-location regression.

Rehab & HMI

Grip and movement assessment in rehabilitation, and hand-contact behaviour logging for human–machine interaction research.

Specifications

Technical specifications

Body & sensing

Model	HP01
Glove size	160 × 260 mm
Material	Polyester textile, fully fabric-based
Sensing points	174 standard (99 palm + 3 × 3 per fingertip + 6 per phalanx), customisable
Sensing regions	Fingertips / pads / palm
Pressure range	100 gf
Pressure resolution	8-bit
Response time	0.1 s
Sampling rate	10 Hz (customisable)
Delivered as	Left/right pair

Electrical · comms · environment

Power	USB 5 V
Current	100 mA
Interface	USB / serial
Serial settings	115200 8N1
Operating temp.	−20 … 60 °C
Operating humidity	0 … 98% RH
Storage	−20 … 60 °C, 0 … 98% RH
Flex endurance	10,000 cycles
Cleaning	Not washable; wipe with a dry cloth
Host requirements	USB port, 12 GB RAM or more

Sensing regions, point count, interface protocol and sampling rate can all be tailored to a project. Figures follow product manual V0.1; the production or engineering-sample documentation governs.

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