Artificial skin developed for humans and robots
SEP 14, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024670
Daily Mail : Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a touch-sensitive artificial “skin"dubbed “e-skin"made of thin flexible material embedded with inorganic semiconductor nanowires. According to Ali Javey, head of the Berkeley research team, ''The idea is to have a material that functions like the human skin, which means incorporating the ability to feel and touch objects.” The material could be used on robots and perhaps even on humans with artificial limbs, which would require more sophisticated techniques involving integration of electronic sensors with the human nervous system. The group has published its findings in Nature Materials .
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