Electronic Skin

The video in this piece, from the American Chemical Society, describes materials engineering work at Stanford University which aims to make artificial skin for prosthetics that is flexible, touch sensitive, and capable of transmitting signals. It relies on 3-D printing for circuits and silver nanowires for the fingertip pads that sense pressure as real skin does. The same technology is adaptable to wearable devices on the body.   MORE WITH VIDEO

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