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This article presents a novel robot skin that integrates both proximity and tactile sensors in a nursing robot to maximize the safety of patient transfer tasks. Two types of sensors are mounted on a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Synthetic skins inspired by cephalopod chromatophores have been developed to enable rapid, programmable color switching in soft robots and wearable devices.

Scientists working in the field of robotics have done it again. They went and made robots even more advanced, on purpose. This time the developed a highly-sensitive, human-like “skin” that will allow ...

Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and UCL have developed a new type of electronic skin. In research published on June 11, scientists unveiled a conductive gel that detects heat ...

Related:[Lab-grown, self-healing human skin designed to cover robot faces] Image: University of Cambridge That synthetic skin can also be melted down and reconfigured into new shapes.

June 12 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have ...

The robotic skin is not as sensitive as human skin but it can reportedly detect signals from over 860,000 pathways in the material, enabling it to recognise different types of touch and pressure. The ...

A new synthetic "skin" gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons to ...

Although the robotic skin is not as sensitive as human skin, it can detect signals from over 860,000 tiny pathways in the material, enabling it to recognise different types of touch and pressure – ...

Although the new robotic skin is not as sensitive as human skin, the researchers say it can detect signals from more than 860,000 tiny pathways in the material. That enables it to recognise different ...

A new synthetic "skin" gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons to ...