{"id":137866,"date":"2022-04-08T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-breakthrough-3d-printed-fingertip-feels-and-acts-like-human-skin"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:26","slug":"new-breakthrough-3d-printed-fingertip-feels-and-acts-like-human-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-breakthrough-3d-printed-fingertip-feels-and-acts-like-human-skin","title":{"rendered":"New breakthrough 3D printed fingertip feels and acts like human skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-breakthrough-3d-printed-fingertip-feels-and-acts-like-human-skin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers were inspired by actual skin. Researchers have been working on robot dexterity for several years now trying to give the machines human-like sensitivity. This has been no easy task as even the most advanced machines struggle with this concept.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Now the team is working on making the artificial fingertip as sensitive to fine detail as the real thing. Currently, the 3D-printed skin is thicker than real skin which may be hindering this process. As such, Lepora\u2019s team is now working on 3D-printing structures on the microscopic scale of human skin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to make artificial skin as good \u2013 or even better \u2014 than real skin,\u201d concluded Professor Lepora. The end result could have many applications in soft robotics <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/a-new-skin-that-helps-robots-feel-could-be-used-to-build-the-metaverse\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/a-new-skin-that-helps-robots-feel-could-be-used-to-build-the-metaverse\">including in the Metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers were inspired by actual skin. Researchers have been working on robot dexterity for several years now trying to give the machines human-like sensitivity. This has been no easy task as even the most advanced machines struggle with this concept. Now the team is working on making the artificial fingertip as sensitive to fine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137866","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}