A research team in Japan has designed what they believe is the most comfortable e-skin to date by using a wood-derived material to create a lightweight, durable, and comfortable material on which to ...

In a world increasingly driven by technological advancements, the lines between human sensation and robotic capability are blurring. Enter neuromorphic ...

Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed the first stretchy, electronic skin with many of the same characteristics as human skin. The researchers have committed to creating a stretchy ...

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...

Research led by Zhenan Bao – K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering and, by courtesy, Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering – was published in Science in May 2023 for ground ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Creating technology that mimics human skin—a flexible, sensitive, and self-healing organ—has remained a significant challenge in material science and robotics. Electronic skin, or ...

A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of ...

Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Nature Medicine Intelligence, scientists at the California Institute of Technology discussed the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) ...