Human bipedal balance during standing and walking depends on several receptors including the cutaneous receptors in the glabrous skin of the foot sole. It has been shown in human-involved studies that the different areas of the sole have distinct sensitivities and serve a different purpose in both walking and standing. In humanoid robotics, the feedback to keep balance is mainly achieved using force-torque sensors mounted at the robot's ankles. Although these sensors can accurately estimate the center of pressure of a foothold, they cannot provide information about the pressure shape of the footprint and therefore can miss ill terrain conditions during locomotion. In this paper, we present a biologically inspired sole skin sensor based on the robot skin developed at our lab. The robot skin can enhance and complement the ankle force-torque sensors used in balancing and walking controllers by providing additional information that a force-torque sensor cannot produce. This additional information can be used to reconstruct the supporting polygon and the pressure footprint online. We present a case study where a force-torque sensor fails to detect the terrain conditions while the skin succeeds and the information is used to re-plan the footstep position.