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• Scientists in Japan are devising an electronic skin that could give robots a sensitive touch, just like human beings.

• "Recognition of tactile information will be very important for future generations of robots," Nature quoted Takao Someya, who is developing the skin, as saying.

• The skin developed by Someya and his colleagues comprises a sheet of rubbery polymer, saturated with flakes of electrically conducting graphite.

• The electrical resistance of the sheet changes when it is squeezed, and this change is detected by an array of transistors beneath the rubber.

• However, the touch sensitivity, despite of the efforts put in vision and voice recognition for robots, is still in its elementary stages.

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