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Artificial skin? We made it — here's why | Anna Maria Coclite
Jan 9, 2024
Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite discusses the development of highly responsive artificial skin that can detect touch, force, temperature, and humidity. The potential applications include restoring sensation in burn victims, improving hydration monitoring, enhancing humanoid robots, and teaching prosthetics the subtleties of human touch.
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- Artificial skin technology has the potential to restore the sense of touch for burn victims and amputees, enhancing their capabilities and wellbeing.
- Artificial skin technology can improve the performance and safety of humanoid robots by providing enhanced sensitivity to stimuli.
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Advancing Artificial Skin for Prosthetics and Robotics
Material scientist Anna Maria Coklite is on the verge of a breakthrough in creating artificial skin that can replicate the sensation of touch. She envisions a future where prosthetics can go beyond mere replacement and allow individuals to regain their lost sense of touch. Moreover, this technology could enable robots to better understand human touch. With her team, Coklite has developed an artificial skin that can respond simultaneously to touch, temperature, and humidity with unparalleled resolution. By combining stimuli-responsive material with piezoelectric material, they created tiny cylinders that can sense various stimuli and translate them into measurable signals.
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