Robots will have sensitive skin like humans?

Scientists at Stanford University have successfully developed a super-durable "skin" that can feel human skin-like touch.

This "super skin" can be stretched 2 times the original size and resilient back without distortion. The team hopes the "super skin" material could be used in fake limbs or create robots that can sense touches like human skin.

The "super skin" material contains highly elastic carbon nanotubes.

According to Daily Mail, the inside of the sensor material is the super small springs are made from carbon nanofibers, which can stretch in any direction. They can sense and tolerate very small vibrations such as light touches, to the equally powerful effects of two elephants.

The new material is made by spraying carbon nanotubes onto the surface of a silicon wafer. Once this process is complete, carbon nanotubes are randomly placed on the surface of the silicon wafer. However, when stretched, the carbon nanotube binds together in a spring-like fashion.

Dr. Zhenan Bao, head of the study, said : "The carbon nanotubes are bonded together like springs and they can be stretched many times without changing the original shape."

The scientists also found that if the material was stretched a second time in a direction perpendicular to the first stretch, then it could be stretched in any direction without distortion. or damaged.