Eric Utley has more than 16 years of experience in rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. His focus is on stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and direct metal laser sintering technologies, and he provides guidance to engineers on designing for manufacturability. Utley regularly consults with product development professionals from a range of industries including medical, consumer products, aerospace, and automotive. He earned a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University.
Vision and force sensing have long been essential to robotics, but increasingly capable physical AI systems are creating new demands for robots to understand and interact with the world through touch. This session will explore how tactile sensing is evolving, where it adds value beyond vision, and how advances in sensors, data, and AI are enabling robots to handle objects and perform tasks with greater dexterity and reliability.
