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New 'electronic skin' for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions
10 December 2014, 5:14 pm

Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip. For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable 'electronic skin' closely modeled after our own that can detect not just pressure, but also what direction it's coming from. The study on the advance could have applications for prosthetics and robotics.

Source: Robotics Research News -- ScienceDaily