Photo: The "skins" match human skin's ability to sense tiny pressure changes quickly.From The BBC:
"Artificial skin" that could bring a sensitive touch to robots and prosthetic limbs, has been shown off.
The materials, which can sense pressure as sensitively and quickly as human skin, have been outlined by two groups reporting in Nature Materials.
The skins are arrays of small pressure sensors that convert tiny changes in pressure into electrical signals.
The arrays are built into or under flexible rubber sheets that could be stretched into a variety of shapes.
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