{"id":143797,"date":"2022-08-09T03:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/artificial-finger-able-to-identify-surface-material-with-90-accuracy"},"modified":"2022-08-09T03:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:23:04","slug":"artificial-finger-able-to-identify-surface-material-with-90-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/artificial-finger-able-to-identify-surface-material-with-90-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Artificial finger able to identify surface material with 90% accuracy"},"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\/bZ6F4gL7JOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an artificial finger that was able to identify certain surface materials with 90% accuracy. In their paper published in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the group describes how they used triboelectric sensors to give their test finger an ability to gain a sense of touch.<\/p>\n<p>Prior research has led to the development of robotic fingers that have the ability to recognize certain attributes of certain surfaces, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pressure<\/a> or temperature\u2014the team with this new effort, have taken such efforts further by adding the ability to identify a material that is being touched.<\/p>\n<p>The finger was created by applying small square sensors to the tip of a finger-shaped object. Each of the squares was made of a different kind of plastic polymer, each chosen because of their unique electrical properties. When such sensors are moved close to an object, such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/flat+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flat surface<\/a>, electrons from the sensors interact with the materials in unique ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an artificial finger that was able to identify certain surface materials with 90% accuracy. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how they used triboelectric sensors to give their test finger an ability to gain a sense of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143797","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}