{"id":158104,"date":"2023-02-15T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bionic-fingers-create-3d-maps-of-human-tissue-electronics-and-other-complex-objects"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:26:02","slug":"bionic-fingers-create-3d-maps-of-human-tissue-electronics-and-other-complex-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bionic-fingers-create-3d-maps-of-human-tissue-electronics-and-other-complex-objects","title":{"rendered":"Bionic fingers create 3D maps of human tissue, electronics, and other complex objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bionic-fingers-create-3d-maps-of-human-tissue-electronics-and-other-complex-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if, instead of using X-rays or ultrasound, we could use touch to image the insides of human bodies and electronic devices? In a study publishing in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science (\u201cA smart bionic finger for subsurface tactile-tomography\u201d), researchers present a bionic finger that can create 3D maps of the internal shapes and textures of complex objects by touching their exterior surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were inspired by human fingers, which have the most sensitive tactile perception that we know of,\u201d says senior author Jianyi Luo, a professor at Wuyi University. \u201cFor example, when we touch our own bodies with our fingers, we can sense not only the texture of our skin, but also the outline of the bone beneath it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur bionic finger goes beyond previous artificial sensors that were only capable of recognizing and discriminating between external shapes, surface textures, and hardness,\u201d says co-author Zhiming Chen, a lecturer at Wuyi University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if, instead of using X-rays or ultrasound, we could use touch to image the insides of human bodies and electronic devices? In a study publishing in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science (\u201cA smart bionic finger for subsurface tactile-tomography\u201d), researchers present a bionic finger that can create 3D maps of the internal shapes and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1965,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-mapping","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158104","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}