Researchers Focus study of nanoparticles and nanotechnology midday Korea Institute of Fundamental Sciences and Seoul National University created the elastic skin, which has sensory abilities - said Robotics.ua.
If reported demiurges this invention, it is able to feel the pressure, heat and humidity. The skin has been tested under different situations, if the press on the keyboard, the contact with the ice and hot objects, shaking right hand, and contact with wet and dry manufactories, outstanding surface texture.
At the heart of the touch of the skin lying elastic, flexible silicone material under the title of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS).
Inside will be a spiral of flexible silicon nanoribbons, which generate an electric current through the piezoelectric effect. Deformation shapes of these belts provides the effect of touch through the return circuit. Silicon given the fact that it significantly changes the electrical characteristics when the temperature changes, allowing spirals rather vazhnetski determine the temperature of the object with which they come into contact.
Unnatural coating also includes capacitors acting as moisture sensors. When the polymer, which will be between these capacitors, absorbs moisture, it changes the capacitance, which is used in determining the level of humidity in this sphere environment.
Naturally, this skin can be used to cover the robots and automated systems, and it is fully ready for this. This is due to the fact that the necessary technology measuring electrical signals and processing methods quite a while already famous in the current developments.
However, until the untimely chatter about the use of the skin to cover the automated prostheses forcibly inject thoughts. To do this more necessary to implement the return connection in order to pass directly into the brain signals from the sensor surface.
