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When the research is completed, it will allow robots to have touch-sensitive skin, better allowing them to interact with their environment.
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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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