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Sensitive robot skin

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/tum-sds062911.php  …

Researchers make artificial skin

UC California Berkeley researchers have developed an electronic skin that is capable of sensing touch as sensitive and as fast as the human skin does. The approach was to use…

Optical sensors in robot skin

To improve the sensing ability of robot skin, a research team in Ghent University in Belgium have placed optical sensors in place of the traditional pressure sensors or motor resistance.…

Skin that conducts electricity

A new rubber material has been developed by Japanese scientists that is able to flex but conduct electricity as well. The material can stretch as much as 38 percent before…