“Artificial skin” senses touch, temperature, humidity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708124423.htm

Professor Hossam Haick at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has created a flexible sensor that could be integrated into electronic skin, enabling those with prosthetic limbs to feel changes in their environments.  The Technion invention simultaneously senses touch, humidity, and temperature. According to Professor Haick, it is at least 10 times more sensitive to touch than current systems.  It should be compared to the technology developed by University of Illinois Professor John Rogers (see ApplySci posts of March 13, 2013 and June 8, 2013) and being commercialized by mc10.


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