The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...

Robots are starting to gain something that looks a lot like a sense of touch, and in some cases even a crude version of pain.

If you had to rank the most powerful sense, which would you choose? Over 88 percent of participants in a 2016 survey ranked vision as their most important sense, followed by hearing in a distant ...

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...

Scientists have created a new type of artificial skin that they claim has more sensing features than human skin. A team from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore built the dual-responsive ...

According to the researchers, their new neuromorphic robotic e-skin is based on a structure inspired by the human nervous ...

We've all seen the movies: robots that look and behave like humans are among us, and chaos ensues. Most of the time, it's some sort of conflict between the two species, whether a full-fledged war or ...

As lovers might vouch, complex nuances of touch, including nearness sans physical contact and gradations of tactile pressure, convey a rich sensory experience and multi-dimensional cognitive pursuits.

Although human skin can typically repair itself after damage, acute injuries can permanently interfere with some or all of skin's sensory capabilities. Current skin-repair therapies cannot restore ...

Investigators have developed an artificial skin that is even more sensitive than human skin in its ability to detect pressure applied by an object as well as its approach. In research published in the ...

Scientists at Stanford University have developed an artificial skin that would theoretically be capable of sensing when it is being touched and sending that data to the brain. WSJ's Monika Auger ...