{"id":191321,"date":"2024-06-17T02:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T07:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/solar-powered-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs"},"modified":"2024-06-17T02:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T07:25:02","slug":"solar-powered-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/solar-powered-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered skin for prosthetic limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-powered-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"\">A synthetic skin for prosthetics limbs that can generate its own energy from solar power has been developed by engineers from Glasgow University.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers had already created an \u2018electronic skin\u2019 for prosthetic hands made with new super-material graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The new skin was much more sensitive to touch but needed a power source to operate its sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic skin for prosthetics limbs that can generate its own energy from solar power has been developed by engineers from Glasgow University. Researchers had already created an \u2018electronic skin\u2019 for prosthetic hands made with new super-material graphene. The new skin was much more sensitive to touch but needed a power source to operate its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191321","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}