Soft, thin and conformable
A textile, not a rigid panel. It bends and wraps around complex surfaces.
NEURATEX™ textile electronic skin›
The world is physical.
The world is physical.
AI should feel it.
FIRST FIBER builds electronic-fiber tactile sensing: textiles that measure touch, and the data infrastructure for Physical AI.
Electronic fibresTactile sensingPhysical AI
01 · Core technology
Fibres that feel.
Touch, turned into data.
Electronic fibres, data-acquisition electronics and real-time software turn every touch into structured tactile data.
- 01
Press
Conductive fibres cross through a piezoresistive textile. Where something presses, fibre contact changes, and so does the electrical resistance at that crossing.
- 02
Scan
Data-acquisition electronics read every crossing of the array many times a second.
- 03
Map
Real-time software turns the readings into a live pressure map: where contact is, and how hard.
- 04
Learn
Every frame is recorded as tactile data, ready for robots, interactive systems and AI models.
From fingertip to full surface
The same fibre construction scales to large-area sensing.
See touch as it happens
Pressure distribution is visualised live, frame by frame.
02 · Flagship product
NEURATEX™
Textile electronic skin.
A flexible tactile sensing system that brings physical touch into the digital world.
NEURATEX™ is FIRST FIBER’s textile-based electronic skin platform, designed to bring tactile sensing to robots and intelligent interactive surfaces.
Powered by our proprietary electronic-fiber sensing technology, it integrates flexible pressure-sensing arrays, data-acquisition electronics and real-time visualisation software.
- Working prototype
- 32 × 32 array · 1,024 sensing points
- Demonstrates
- Spatial pressure mapping, human-touch interaction
- Designed for
- Robotic e-skin, physical interaction sensing, tactile data acquisition
Built on NEURATEX™
From skin
to glove.
Robotics / tactile perception
Contact · live
Illustration
Robotic textile skin
Give robots a
Give robots a
sense of touch.
Conformable sensing textiles that help robots perceive contact, map pressure and interact more naturally with people and their environment.
Data / embodied learning
REC0 framesGrip · relative
Illustration
Tactile Data Glove
Capture the data
Capture the data
vision can’t.
Fibre-based sensing in a wearable form, to study grasp, contact and human–object interaction for embodied AI data workflows.
03 · Applications
Wherever touch
carries information.
Robotics
Electronic skin that lets robots feel contact, grip and slip.
Smart healthcare
Smart mattresses and care surfaces that map how patients bear load, with partners such as Tactera.
Automotive sensing
Intelligent seating that knows who is seated, and how.
Wearables & interactive surfaces
Garments and surfaces that respond to touch.
04 · Featured innovation
Multisensory
interactive apparel.
Where advanced materials meet immersive experiences.
A next-generation wearable project integrating active heating and cooling, vibrotactile feedback and intelligent electronic control. Developed through FIRST FIBER’s expertise in functional materials, wearable electronics and system integration, it explores how advanced textiles can create new forms of interaction between people and digital environments.
In the spotlightWatch the media feature on Bilibili↗05 · Vision
Tactile data infrastructure
for Physical AI.
AI has learned to see and to read. To work in the physical world, it also needs to feel. FIRST FIBER is building the sensing materials, hardware and data that make touch measurable at scale. NEURATEX™ is an important step toward that vision.
Build with FIRST FIBER.
We work with robotics teams, healthcare and automotive partners, researchers and manufacturers. Tell us what you want to sense.
Contact details are coming soon. For partnership and CES enquiries, please check back shortly.