A team of scientists has created an electronic skin that could pave the way for flexible robotic devices to assist with surgical procedures or aid people’s mobility.
The stretchable e-skin, developed at the University of Edinburgh, is used on soft robots to provide them, for the first time, with a level of physical self-awareness similar to that of people and animals.
The technology could aid breakthroughs in soft robotics by enabling devices to detect precisely their movement in the most sensitive of surroundings.
