A new artificial skin unveiled at CES 2026 could give robots human-like sensitivity, helping machines better understand ...

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

While most current technological advances in robotics concern artificial intelligence, this time a team of Chinese ...

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...

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 ...

Robots are starting to gain something that looks a lot like a sense of touch, and in some cases even a crude version of pain.

Scientists have created a new type of artificial skin that they claim has more sensing features than human skin. A team from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore built the dual-responsive ...

We've all seen the movies: robots that look and behave like humans are among us, and chaos ensues. Most of the time, it's some sort of conflict between the two species, whether a full-fledged war or ...

New octopus-inspired artificial skin mimics marine camouflage, enabling materials to transform in color and texture for ...

As lovers might vouch, complex nuances of touch, including nearness sans physical contact and gradations of tactile pressure, convey a rich sensory experience and multi-dimensional cognitive pursuits.

Although human skin can typically repair itself after damage, acute injuries can permanently interfere with some or all of skin's sensory capabilities. Current skin-repair therapies cannot restore ...

If you had to rank the most powerful sense, which would you choose? Over 88 percent of participants in a 2016 survey ranked vision as their most important sense, followed by hearing in a distant ...