Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then trigger lightning-fast reflexes that look less like code and more like ...

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain. Chinese researchers have built a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets ...

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