Spray-On Electronic Skin Will Allow Robots to Differentiate Strain and Pressure

[cageymaru]

South Korean researchers from the KAIST Research University have developed e-skin that allows a robot to differentiate strain and pressure like human skin can. The spray-on coating allows for wearable electronics to be added to surfaces such as on a prosthetic device due to properties that allow the e-skin to be uniformly deposited. It also allows the wearable electronics to "distinguish mechanical stimuli analogous to human skin."

Professor Park said, "Our electronic skin can be mass produced at a low cost and can easily be coated onto complex 3-dimensional surfaces. It is a key technology that can bring us closer to the commercialization of electronic skin for various applications in the near future."

 

[termite]

Should make it easier to blend in when they come to kill us.

 

[clockdogg]

 

[Wrecked Em]

Soon my fleshlight will be able to evaluate my performance.

 

[DrBorg]

Soon my fleshlight will be able to evaluate my performance.

Um, we hate to tell you this, but your fleshlight died due to lack of stimulation. That's a dead rat.



For the rest of us, This New ability will add the feeling vector when Francis takes over with a potato peeler, Meatbags!

 

[Krenum]

Soon my fleshlight will be able to evaluate my performance.

And gather information about you, then kill you while you sleep.

 

[Wrecked Em]

And gather information about you, then kill you while you sleep.

As long as it chokes me a little bit first.