{"id":209872,"date":"2025-03-27T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-lighter-smarter-magnetoreceptive-electronic-skin"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:09:50","slug":"a-lighter-smarter-magnetoreceptive-electronic-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-lighter-smarter-magnetoreceptive-electronic-skin","title":{"rendered":"A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-lighter-smarter-magnetoreceptive-electronic-skin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone underwater: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic skin<\/a> that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and permeable, but also mimics the interactions of real skin and the brain, as the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56805-x\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Originally developed for robotics, e-skins imitate the properties of real skin. They can give robots a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sense+of+touch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sense of touch<\/a> or replace lost senses in humans. Some can even detect chemical substances or magnetic fields. But the technology also has its limits. Highly functional e-skins are often impractical because they rely on extensive electronics and large batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone underwater: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1499,1512,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}