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Artificial skin

2D or 3D. Other methods to bind skin tissue to solid structures come with limitations. This new method can work on complex, curved, and even moving surfaces.
Robotics

3D-printed, self-healing human skin to cover robotic face

Ashwini Sakharkar

Specially engineered skin tissue grants robots special properties and abilities.

The skin-like sensing prototype device, made with stretchable electronics
Technology

New electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin

Ashwini Sakharkar

It can electronically replicate the way human skin senses pain.

Skin-on interface allows devices to 'feel' the user's grasp and detect interactions such as tickling, caressing, even twisting and pinching.
Robotics

An artificial skin for your devices that mimics human skin

Ashwini Sakharkar

Skin-On, an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting interactive devices such as phones, wearables or computers.

Thanks to the synthetic skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team, robot H-1 is able to feel the touch of a human. New control algorithms made it possible for the first time to apply artificial skin to a human-sized robot. Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM
Robotics

Sensitive robots are safer

Amit Malewar

Biologically-inspired artificial skin improves the sensory ability of robots.

Pixelated electronics built with skin-like materials conform to the complex curves of a hand
Technology

Scientists developed stretchable, touch-sensitive electronics

Amit Malewar

People with prosthetic limbs live in a world without touch. In order to restore some semblance of this sensation, Stanford scientists have created stretchable,...

New Flexible Sensor Holds Potential For Foldable Touch Screens
Technology

New Flexible Sensor Holds Potential For Foldable Touch Screens

Amit Malewar

Imagine a tablet that you can fold into the size of a smart phone and put it in your pocket. Now, scientists are bringing...

Artificial Skin That Feels Temperature Changes
Technology

Artificial Skin That Feels Temperature Changes

Amit Malewar

Artificial skin has the potential that it can induce regeneration of skin in humans. Previously, MIT scientists had developed a type of artificial skin that...

New Hydrogel Hybrid doesn’t Dry Out
Technology

New Hydrogel Hybrid doesn’t Dry Out

Amit Malewar

If we put a cube of Jell-O on the counter of the kitchen, ultimately the water inside it will start evaporating. It leaves a...

Artificial skin that could temporarily tighten the skin
Technology

Artificial skin that could temporarily tighten the skin

Amit Malewar

MIT scientists, Massachusetts General Hospital, living proof, and Olivo Labs have developed artificial skin. This artificial skin can transiently protect and tighten the skin...

Smart Skin
Robotics

Smart Skin may Transform Medicine, Robotics

Amit Malewar

Researchers from Saudi Arabia have produced a new kind of multi-sensor artificial skin. This smart skin is able to sense pressure, temperature, humidity, proximity,...

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