{"id":159452,"date":"2023-03-03T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-e-skin-could-allow-robots-to-sense-touch-and-their-surroundings"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:24:18","slug":"new-e-skin-could-allow-robots-to-sense-touch-and-their-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-e-skin-could-allow-robots-to-sense-touch-and-their-surroundings","title":{"rendered":"New e-skin could allow robots to sense touch and their surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-e-skin-could-allow-robots-to-sense-touch-and-their-surroundings3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a revolutionary step forward for soft robotics.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Edinburgh has engineered smart electronic skin that could pave the way for soft, flexible robotic devices with a sense of touch, according to a press release by the institution published last week.<\/p>\n<p>The technology could aid in breakthroughs in soft robotics introducing a range of applications, such as surgical tools, prosthetics, and devices to explore hazardous environments.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say, \u201ctheir stretchable e-skin gives robots for the first time a level of physical self-awareness similar to that of people and animals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a revolutionary step forward for soft robotics. A team of scientists from Edinburgh has engineered smart electronic skin that could pave the way for soft, flexible robotic devices with a sense of touch, according to a press release by the institution published last week. The technology could aid in breakthroughs in soft robotics introducing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452","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=159452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}