Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite unveils “smart skin” — artificial skin technology that responds to touch, temperature and humidity like your very own. (It’s actually even more sensitive than human skin!) From helping burn victims to paving the way to smarter, safer humanoid robots, Coclite highlights the broad-ranging potential of this innovation.
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Sam Winkin
November 6, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Get ready to get chromed chooms
Sam Winkin
November 6, 2023 at 4:01 pm
It’s cyberpunk time
Rahul Radhakrishnan
November 6, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Technology keeps growing! Interesting to see how it will keep evolving.
Fawn Hill
November 6, 2023 at 4:13 pm
It would be amazing if it got to the point where if skin was damaged it could be replaced or at least really healed… I know they can do a certain amount with burn victims but even down to eczema/psoriasis/etc… I’d love to be done with skin issues forever…
Meli S
November 6, 2023 at 8:34 pm
Look up Michael Levin’s work with regeneration. Then, prepare to have your mind blown. In a few years, we should be able to regenerate almost any part.
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November 6, 2023 at 4:15 pm
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Pacotaco
November 6, 2023 at 4:37 pm
One day our touchscreens will touch back
Flashbry
November 6, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Very interesting. I could see a lot of good ideas for this skin. If they could make it have solar cells too, it could provide power for robots or artificial limbs etc.
We are living in interesting times!
RaDiCaL
November 6, 2023 at 5:05 pm
Or, something for the ladies and gents… 😜
untitled795
November 6, 2023 at 5:31 pm
We can make mentally Ill people change their genders, create artificial skin, cars that drive to 60 in under 2 seconds. Funny how we can’t manufacture peace or happiness.
Dame Anvil
November 6, 2023 at 5:36 pm
00:04 🖐 Artificial skin technology demonstrated, showing response to touch, temperature, and humidity.
01:14 ⚡ Artificial skin mimics how human skin senses and transmits signals through electrical currents.
02:41 📏 New artificial skin has unprecedented resolution, sensing objects smaller than human skin can.
03:43 🔄 Stimuli-responsive material changes shape in response to humidity, light, pH, or temperature changes.
05:43 🔄 Combination of stimuli-responsive and piezoelectric materials enables sensing and electricity generation.
06:46 🛠 Production of cylinders with specialized materials involves vapor deposition in vacuum chambers.
08:19 💡 Potential applications include aiding burn victims, enhancing smartwatches, improving humanoid robots, and enhancing prosthetics.
Neighbor
November 10, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Amazing! Thanks for the summary.
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November 6, 2023 at 6:20 pm
😊😊😊😊
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November 6, 2023 at 6:22 pm
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Chuchu Man
November 6, 2023 at 6:25 pm
I think the idea of artificial skin is a cool and interesting concept in my opinion.
D. Lawrence Miller
November 6, 2023 at 6:35 pm
So that’s how the Borg Queen did it lol
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November 6, 2023 at 6:46 pm
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Dyslexicshaman
November 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Assuming you could actually intergrate this technology with a human’s nervous system; more resolution in touch in a human’s skin could lead to oversensitivity? You’d probably need to tune down the resolution most of the time. If there was some of that artificial skin on the tips of my fingers, I’d be able to detect defects in the finish on a polished surface to a much finer degree. I’d not wish to touch say, velcro or something rough with the skin on full resolution. Oh god imagine touching a slug!
Force feedback sensing on robots would be seriously augmented. Robot surgeons, yes?
Scarlet_Phonavis
November 7, 2023 at 6:18 am
I doubt that’d be an issue, the body is full of counter systems where overstimulation leads to agonists being pumped out, I don’t know much about nervous system stuff but considering phenomena like “legs going to sleep” when nerves are compressed can regulate themselves and chronic pain syndromes exist it’s safe to assume our nervous system is already fine tuning itself
Carson Hunt
November 7, 2023 at 1:46 pm
@Scarlet_Phonavisit’s not really that, it’s just that the thalamus does not keep forwarding useless sensory impulses to the brain if no action is needed, meaning it just basically ignores it after a certain point and you no longer notice the stimuli.
This technology is neat but I am unsure how they would be able to send the neuron impulses correctly (the right amount to right places) and how the body would integrate them appropriately.
Nostalgic Zone
November 6, 2023 at 8:16 pm
Technology keeps up, I might be able to buy myself a girlfriend. There’s still hope for us single dudes
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November 6, 2023 at 9:35 pm
Have they invented artificial slenderness The frog with the red behind it wants to know.
Johnson repp
November 6, 2023 at 10:08 pm
Amazing
CG
November 6, 2023 at 11:46 pm
Closer to Ghost in the Shell or, hopefully not, the Animatrix series.
zeynep
November 7, 2023 at 12:25 am
Israelian use the skins of Palestinian victims 😢😢 wake up world please free palestine
LilVlog
November 7, 2023 at 2:02 am
A disguised Cromartie approaches a scientist (Adam Godley) with the mathematical formula to regenerate his destroyed human skin. After they are successful, Cromartie kills the scientist and takes his eyes – S01E03 Sarah Connor Chronicles, EN Wikipedia
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November 7, 2023 at 2:16 am
Dont let her tickle you with a feather, she uses the quil.
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November 7, 2023 at 2:21 am
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November 7, 2023 at 12:08 pm
It looked to me that it’s sensitive to heat, pressure and humidity, but it didn’t look like it could tell them apart. Or did I miss something?
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November 11, 2023 at 5:14 am
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