The fabric that can tell the difference between a kiwi and an avocado


The creators of Capacitivo have shared a video showing the interactive fabric recognising various foods. — ACM SIGCHI/Youtube.com/AFP

In collaboration with Microsoft, researchers at several universities in the United States and China have developed an interactive smart fabric. Dubbed Capacitivo, it can recognise certain devices or even foods placed on its surface, thanks to inbuilt electrodes. It has a variety of potential uses.

Capacitivo is a contact-based object recognition technique developed for interactive fabrics using capacitive sensing. It features a conductive fabric with over 100 electrodes attached to a textile substrate. The smart fabric has already been shown to recognise a sample of several objects, including plastic items, dinnerware and fruit (avocado, kiwi, grapefruit), with 94.5% accuracy.

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