{"id":158986,"date":"2023-02-25T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/robots-now-have-the-sense-of-touch-after-electronic-skin-is-created"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:28:58","slug":"robots-now-have-the-sense-of-touch-after-electronic-skin-is-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/robots-now-have-the-sense-of-touch-after-electronic-skin-is-created","title":{"rendered":"Robots now have the sense of touch after electronic skin is created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-now-have-the-sense-of-touch-after-electronic-skin-is-created2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has developed electronic skin that could pave the way for soft,<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/01\/26\/shape-shifting-robot-can-turn-into-liquid-and-pass-through-metal-bars-18170010\/#:~:text=A%20shape%2Dshifting%20robot%20which, to%20design%20the%20miniature%20robots.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> flexible robotic devices<\/a> to assist with surgical procedures or aid people\u2019s mobility.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of stretchable e-skin by Edinburgh researchers gives soft <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/02\/23\/google-lays-off-team-of-robots-that-cleaned-tables-and-sorted-rubbish-18336703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">robots<\/a> for the first time a level of physical self-awareness similar to that of people and animals.<\/p>\n<p>The technology could aid breakthroughs in soft robotics by enabling devices to detect precisely their movement in the most sensitive of surroundings, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has developed electronic skin that could pave the way for soft, flexible robotic devices to assist with surgical procedures or aid people\u2019s mobility. The creation of stretchable e-skin by Edinburgh researchers gives soft robots for the first time a level of physical self-awareness similar to that of people and animals. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158986","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}