Electric skin that feels like humans

Texas: Scientists have developed the first flexible electrical skin that can be applied to robots to feel like human skin.

This new flexible e-book, developed by researchers at the University of Texas in the US, solves a major problem facing the emerging technology. The materials used in current e-skin technology are flexible but cannot be felt like human skin. However, this new version of the volume has made up for this shortcoming.

Professor Nanshu Lu, head of research from the Cockerill School of Engineering, said that the skin must be as flexible as it is to facilitate the movements of human organs, so it is also an electric skin. No matter how much this new skin is stretched, it does not change as a result of the pressure and this is a great achievement.

Nenshu Lu sees this electric skin as an important component for the robot’s hands, which has the potential to give these hands the flexibility and sensitivity of a human hand. This can be applied in the field of medicine where robots can check a patient’s pulse, clean a wound or massage the body.