Robot Skin Gets Sensitive


	Robot Skin Gets Sensitive

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1-10-2008 5:54 AM

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Robots have all the luck. Researchers have been working overtime to make sure that robots will be able to soft, sensitive skin that feels pain and pressure. Now kindly <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=59"><U>DARPA</U></A> researchers are making sure that human beings will also have sensitive artificial skin. 
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In 2005, Goddard technologist Vladimir Lumelsky worked on sensor embedded skin coverings for robots. This high-tech skin (see <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1397#pic1"><U>photo</U></A>) is essential for robots doing space exploration, because humans and robots will work together under different conditions. Robots need to be sensitive. 
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Takao Someya lead a group of University of Tokyo researchers that same year in creating a robotic skin consisting of pressure-sensing and temperature-sensing networks laminated together (see <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1397#pic2"><U>photo</U></A>). The resulting artificial skin can detect both properties simultaneously. The transistors used in the circuits and the semiconductors both use "organic" materials based on chains of carbon atoms, so maybe robots will "feel" a little bit more human. 
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