Breakthrough Could Lead to “Artificial Skin” That Senses Touch, Humidity and Temperature, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor that one day could be integrated into electronic skin, or e-skin. If scientists learn how to attach e-skin to prosthetic limbs, people with amputations might once again be able to feel changes in their environments.

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