SynTouch

Summary

About

About SynTouch

BioTac used an elastic skin filled with conductive fluid around a rigid internal core. Electrodes measured impedance changes as the surface deformed, while separate pressure, temperature and vibration channels captured complementary aspects of contact. This allowed a robotic finger to estimate force, texture, slip and thermal properties through one fingertip-shaped sensor.

Researchers integrated BioTac through ROS and other control environments for grasping, prosthetics and material-recognition experiments. The technology originated from University of Southern California research and became one of the better-known commercial multimodal tactile sensors. SynTouch operated from 2008 until closing in 2024 and is now an historical tactile-sensing company.

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Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • Shadow Robot

    Outbound - End Effectors - SynTouch BioTac sensors were a selectable integration for the Shadow Dexterous Hand

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Team

  • Gerald E. Loeb - CEO & Founding Partner
  • David E. Groves - COO

Timeline

Events

  • 2016-02-17 - Org Change - SynTouch reorganizes as a Delaware corporation

    SynTouch filed the corporate reorganization on February 17, 2016 after operating as a California limited-liability company since 2008. The LLC ownership interests converted into proportional ownership of SynTouch, Inc. on May 16, 2016. The legacy LLC remained active as a subsidiary to support billing under existing federal-agency contracts.

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Context

Comparable profiles

Context tags

  • Tactile sensing - Capability - Company sources support this robotics context.
  • Robotics tactile sensors - Peer Group - Company sources support this robotics context.
  • Force and contact interaction - Capability - SynTouch tactile sensors measure touch/contact signals for robotic hands and manipulation research.
  • Dexterous manipulation components - Stack Layer - Company sources support this robotics context.
  • Dexterous manipulation - Capability - SynTouch sensors support dexterous manipulation stacks without making SynTouch a hand OEM.