{"id":19009,"date":"2015-11-02T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/new-artificial-skin-can-detect-pressure-and-heat-simultaneously"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:11","slug":"new-artificial-skin-can-detect-pressure-and-heat-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/new-artificial-skin-can-detect-pressure-and-heat-simultaneously","title":{"rendered":"New artificial skin can detect pressure and heat simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-artificial-skin-can-detect-pressure-and-heat-simultaneously.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and Dong-A University, both in South Korea, has developed an artificial skin that can detect both pressure and heat with a high degree of sensitivity, at the same time. In their paper published in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the team describes how they created the skin, what they found in testing it and the other types of things it can sense.<\/p>\n<p>Many scientists around the world are working to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\">artificial skin<\/a>, both to benefit robots and human beings who have lost skin sensation or limbs. Such efforts have led to a wide variety of artificial skin types, but until now, none of them have been able to sense both pressure and heat to a high degree, at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The new artificial skin is a sandwich of materials; at the top there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/flexible+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\">flexible surface<\/a> meant to mimic the human fingerprint (it can sense texture), beneath that sit sensors sandwiched between <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene+sheets\/\" rel=\"tag\">graphene sheets<\/a>. The sensors are domed shaped and compress to different degrees when the skin is exposed to different amount of pressure. The compression also causes a small electrical charge to move through the skin, as does heat or sound, which is also transmitted to sensors\u2014the more pressure, heat or sound exerted, the more charge there is\u2014using a computer to measure the charge allows for measuring the degree of sensation \u201cfelt.\u201d The ability to sense sound, the team notes, was a bit of a surprise\u2014additional testing showed that the artificial skin was actually better at picking up sound than an iPhone microphone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-artificial-skin-pressure-simultaneously.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and Dong-A University, both in South Korea, has developed an artificial skin that can detect both pressure and heat with a high degree of sensitivity, at the same time. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes how they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499,1635,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-materials","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69258,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions\/69258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}