Engineers create artificial skin that can feel what it touches
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Engineers have created an artificial skin that can tell how hard it is being pressed and send that information straight into the brain. The researchers hope that the creation of the new sensor could be another step towards creating an entire virtual skin — a flexible fabric full of sensors that could be put over a prosthetic limb, making it work something real skin. The engineers behind it hope that they can develop others that will allow the artificial skin to feel texture and differentiate between different materials, for instance, or detect temperature. "But after spending many years in this work, I now see a clear path where we can take our artificial skin."
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