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https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/new-superconductive-skin-allows-robots-have-sense-touch-ncna802451A team of researchers from the University of Houston have created a new type of skin that allows robotic limbs to feel hot and cold. While still in development, it could potentially give those with prosthetic limbs the ability to feel again, as well as lead to more advanced medical equipment.
As the team explains, most semiconductors both organic and inorganic are mechanically nonstretchable, which makes this discovery all the more impressive. Their research has produced the first semiconductor in rubber composite format that enables stretchability without any special mechanical structure, said Yu.
The artificial skin was made using a silicon-based polymer known as polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, and a hardened material made from small nanowires thats capable of transporting an electrical current. The teams process is relatively easier and more stable than a process using traditional semiconductors, which are brittle and more complicated to work with.
The artificial skin is just one way to use the material. As work on the stretchable electronic progresses, its expected to be able to positively impact the development of other wearable electronics, eventually leading to more sophisticated health monitors, surgical gloves, medical implants, and human-machine interfaces.
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New 'Superconductive' Skin Allows Robots to Have Sense of Touch (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Sep 2017
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SEMIconductive, not superconductive -- mistake in NBC's original headline. nt
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2017
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eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)1. SEMIconductive, not superconductive -- mistake in NBC's original headline. nt
FSogol
(45,481 posts)2. Wow, one step closer to:
Initech
(100,067 posts)3. Also one step closer to: