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Electronic skin is already pretty mind blowing. From brain waves to blood flow, these miniature, flexible circuits stick to your skin and monitor your vital signs. Recently, thanks to research from the University of Texas at Austin, these patches have been given MEMORY, and are able to RECORD what's going on! So what does this mean for the future of health care?

What do you think is going to be the most incredible application of flexible circuitry technology in the future? Let us know in the comments below!

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Electronic skin with an LED display can be used by athletes to show their heart rate – and could one day place a smartphone screen on the back of your hand

"Turn your skin into a screen with a super-thin digital display"

by Sandrine Ceurstemont
April 15, 2016

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Robots just keep getting smarter and more human-like every day. And now, scientists are working to add yet another feature to robots to mimic us even more closely: hair.

Scientific Advisor:
Lifeng Hao, Ph.D.

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We can print out human skin with living cells so good, it can be grafted onto humans. Kim Horcher and Francis Maxwell (TYT Sports, What the Flick) break it down!

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E-dermis can recreate a sense of touch and pain to amputees with prosthetic hands. This electronic "skin" will sense stimuli and relay impulses back to the peripheral nerves.

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In this video, we discuss the papers “Design and Fabrication of Soft Artificial Skin Using Embedded Microchannels and Liquid Conductors” by Yong-Lae Park, Bor-Rong Chen, and Robert J. Wood, 2012 and "Stretchable Capacitive Sensors of Torsion, Strain, and Touch Using Double Helix Liquid Metal Fibers" by C. B. Cooper, K. Artuselvan, Y. Liu et al., 2017

Can we build robots with a sense of touch? Can we wrap robots in skin as stretchable and flexible as a human’s, to protect their innards? In this video, we investigate a technique to embed haptic sensors into artificial skin in a way that allows it to detect pressure, while maintaining its flexibility. In this paper, we review the use of liquid conductors embedded in robot skin to use as haptic sensors.

"Stretchable Capacitive Sensors of Torsion, Strain, and Touch Using Double Helix Liquid Metal Fibers" by C. B. Cooper, K. Artuselvan, Y. Liu et. al, 2017

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EPFL scientists have developed a soft artificial skin that provides haptic feedback and – thanks to a sophisticated self-sensing mechanism – has the potential to instantaneously adapt to a wearer’s movements. Applications for the new technology range from medical rehabilitation to virtual reality.

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Brittle stars are eyeless, brainless animals that spend their time hanging out in dark crevices of coral reefs. But despite all this, it seems that they can still see...using their skin!

Hosted by: Hank Green

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While modern cameras provide machines with a very well-developed sense of vision, robots still lack such a comprehensive solution for their sense of touch. The talk will present examples of why the sense of touch can prove crucial for a wide range of robotic applications, and a tech demo will introduce a novel sensing technology targeting the next generation of soft robotic skins. The prototype of the tactile sensor developed at ETH Zurich exploits the advances in camera technology to reconstruct the forces applied to a soft membrane. This technology has the potential to revolutionize robotic manipulation, human-robot interaction, and prosthetics. Carlo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea. His research targets the development of the next generation of robotic skins. He received the B.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2014 and the M.Sc. degree in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich in 2016. Carlo was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, and he received the ETEL Award 2017 for the best Master's Thesis in Mechatronics at ETH Zurich.

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