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Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin'

Posted by Soulskill on from the toasters-look-like-us-now dept.

Flash Modin writes "Two separate teams, one from UC Berkeley and the other from Stanford, have created distinct types of artificial skin that could find uses in prosthetics or artificial intelligence (Data in First Contact, anyone?). The first team coupled organic electronics with an elastic polymer to make electric skin that could sense a butterfly landing on it (abstract). The second team put a flexible material over a conductive rubber compound which had transistors implanted in it. The device can sense touch when the rubber is compressed, changing the electrical resistance (abstract)."

5 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Use with prosthetics by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually my first thought was sensory enhanced black latex cat suit that electrocutes bad guys.

  2. Re:What color? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 2, Funny

    A penis.

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    "But this one goes to 11!"
  3. Make Robots feel pain!!!! by jameskojiro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we can make them feel pain and keep them in line.

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    Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
  4. Annoying: "X, anyone?" by ZaphDingbat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone else find the phrasing "X, anyone?" REALLY REALLY annoying? It sounds like a smarmy game show host. "Hint hint, wink wink," that sort of thing.

  5. Re:First Contact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You assume the actor knows the lines and isn't actually reading them. Shatner's classic stuttering monologue style was merely a way of coping with the limited amount of text that could fit on the teleprompter at once.