Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) Group at The University of GlasgowIt's a softer, gentler kind of skin. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed an electronic, self-powered robotic mitt that's more sensitive to touch than a human hand. His new bot skin, which is made of a single atomic layer of graphene, is basically a touch sensor. And robots coated entirely in the touch-sensitive graphene skin could have a much easier time picking things up and dropping them off, too. As long as that touchy bot's not growing any human skin, a softer more sensitive robot... sounds like a good thing.

Source: Forbes March 23, 2017 01:30 UTC