Force Sensing Robot Fingers using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Shape Deposition Manufacturing Yong-Lae Park1, Kelvin Chau2, Richard J. Black2, and Mark R. Cutkosky1 1Center for Design Research, Stanford University, USA 2Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation, USA Force sensing is an essential requirement for dexterous robot manipulation. Exoskeletal force sensing robot fingers were developed using a new rapid-prototyping process. For sensing, EMI-immune, light-weight, multiplexable FBG sensors were embedded in a polymer structure. The sensorized robot finger was characterized using an FBG interrogator.