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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

with the new sensor skin!
And you, for once, welcome your final robot overlord! hahahahaha!

Actually

[Underholdning]

This will be of great use in the sex industry. A realdoll which reacts differently on various ways of touching. Or how about a dildo with built in sensors for teaching women how to give a decent blowjob? (Up until now that has been an acquired skill).