{"id":201107,"date":"2024-12-09T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/soft-e-skin-utilizes-magnetic-fields-to-independently-sense-three-axis-forces"},"modified":"2024-12-09T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:09:27","slug":"soft-e-skin-utilizes-magnetic-fields-to-independently-sense-three-axis-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/soft-e-skin-utilizes-magnetic-fields-to-independently-sense-three-axis-forces","title":{"rendered":"Soft e-skin utilizes magnetic fields to independently sense three-axis forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soft-e-skin-utilizes-magnetic-fields-to-independently-sense-three-axis-forces3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science and Technology: Google said its quantum computer, based on a computer chip called Willow, needed less than five minutes to perform a mathematical calculation that one of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, a length of time that exceeds the age of the known universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Electronic skins (e-skins) are flexible sensing materials designed to mimic the human skin\u2019s ability to pick up tactile information when touching objects and surfaces. Highly performing e-skins could be used to enhance the capabilities of robots, to create new haptic interfaces and to develop more advanced prosthetics.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, researchers and engineers have been trying to develop e-skins with individual tactile units (i.e., taxels) that can accurately sense both normal (i.e., perpendicular) and shear (i.e., lateral) forces. While some of these attempts were successful, most existing multi-axis sensors are based on intricate designs or require complex fabrication and calibration processes, which limits their widespread deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at CNRS-University of Montpellier have introduced a new soft e-skin that leverages magnetic fields to independently detect forces on three axes. This e-skin, described in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-024-00904-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i>, has a simple design that could be easy to reproduce on a large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and Technology: Google said its quantum computer, based on a computer chip called Willow, needed less than five minutes to perform a mathematical calculation that one of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, a length of time that exceeds the age of the known universe. Electronic skins (e-skins) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,2229,1617,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201107","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}