Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an ...

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly sensitive robotic "skin" that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way ...

A study conducted by researchers at City University of Hong Kong reveals how they were able to give robots active pain and injury perception with a new electronic skin. While robots can't actually ...

In a recent study published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, researchers describe a groundbreaking novel fabrication process for a touchless interactive device ('skin') using a flexible ...

Researchers have successfully developed an ultra-sensitive pressure sensor for electronic skin modeled after the nervous system in the human brain. This technology is applicable to future devices, ...

Scientists at a German research lab have created an ultra-thin, flexible electronic skin (e-skin) that can detect and track magnetic fields using a single global sensor. Unlike previous designs that ...

Somewhere in between "cool invention" and "creepy thing that should go back to the Philip K. Dick novel it came from" are nanowire electronics. Nanowires are sort of like flexible, transparent ...

Novel e-skins unlock a new level of interaction between humans and machines. (Nanowerk News) Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and ...