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Robot skin can feel touch and pain, and that changes everything

Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then ...

Scientists Give Robots Skin With Pain Sensations And Human-Like Reflexes

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...
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Robot 'skin' from China lets humanoids feel pain and react fast

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain.
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China develops neuromorphic e-skin that lets humanoid robots sense pain and react

Researchers in China built a neuromorphic robotic skin that lets humanoid robots sense pain and react instantly to harm.

Engineers build neuromorphic robotic skin that mimics humans' pain response

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...