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Japanese Researchers Develop Sensor Skin
ScentCone writes "A University of Tokyo team has developed a flexible, laminated network of pressure and temperature sensors suitable for jobs such as robot fingers. Circuits as pressure sensors, and semiconductors as temperature sensors are not new, but the thin, networked laminate of the two is novel."
the porn industry will be the first to widely use this new technology.
I wonder could this be adapted and built into prosthetics somehow? And if you combine it with some sort of ultra-thin LCD...
I, for one, welcome our new robo-skinned, chameleon overlords...
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
Say what you will, the Japanese have picked up the gauntlet to the biggest nerd challenge of all, getting a girlfriend. They're going to build her, they have the technology. She will be stronger, faster, better! Like an Aibo, she will always be happy to see you. She will be soft and smooth and react to touch due to this skin. She will walk upright like a QRIO or Asimo, be able to perform complex pre-programmed moves. She will have a mute button.
...in Japan!
The future is here. Domestic girlfriends are fuel efficient and reliable