Robots can move. Touch is the bottleneck.
Mobility and vision have improved rapidly, but reliable manipulation still depends on tactile feedback — detecting contact, measuring pressure, sensing slip and understanding texture in real time. Without touch, automation stalls on the tasks that matter most: delicate handling, irregular objects and safe human–robot collaboration.
We’re currently exploring pilots with food automation, warehouse robotics, agri‑robotics and lab automation partners. If you have a handling problem that today’s robots can’t solve, we’d be happy to explore it with you.
Where Kirisense fits first
We focus on robotics and automation tasks that defeat vision‑only systems — where touch is the difference between a demo and a deployable solution.
Fresh produce, bakery items and ready meals with irregular shapes and fragile surfaces. Tactile sensing prevents bruising and enables automation where suction cups fail.
Pouches, flexible packaging and soft goods in fulfilment centres. Tactile feedback improves pick success and reduces the need for SKU‑specific grippers.
Lab automation, waste sorting and human–robot interfaces, where contact forces must be controlled tightly and conditions change from one cycle to the next.
Kirisense is building on patented kirigami‑inspired sensing research and is actively engaging with robotics OEMs, automation integrators and UK research groups to run early pilots.
Have a handling problem current robots can’t solve?
Share a short description of your use case — food, warehouse, lab, waste or other. We can quickly assess whether tactile sensing is likely to help and what a pilot could look like.