{"id":116964,"date":"2020-12-11T05:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/stretchable-sensor-gives-robots-and-vr-a-human-touch"},"modified":"2020-12-11T05:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T13:23:33","slug":"stretchable-sensor-gives-robots-and-vr-a-human-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/stretchable-sensor-gives-robots-and-vr-a-human-touch","title":{"rendered":"Stretchable sensor gives robots and VR a human touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/34ucE36zSCg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the way soft robots function and feel. In fact, they will be able to feel quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable \u201cskin\u201d that detects deformations such as pressure, bending and strain. This sensor could give soft robotic systems \u2013 and anyone using augmented reality technology \u2013 the ability to feel the same rich, tactile sensations that mammals depend on to navigate the natural world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the way soft robots function and feel. In fact, they will be able to feel quite a lot. Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable \u201cskin\u201d that detects deformations such as pressure, bending and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}