Thin skin will help robots 'feel'

Svengli · Post by **Svengli** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:53 pm

More and more possibilities keep accumulating...

"Japanese researchers have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4154366.stm

xerxes31415 · Post by **xerxes31415** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:44 pm

That's one more step and one less hurdle to getting a full humanlike android.

Now if only the power issues, the AI issues, and the image recognition problems could be resolved.

handle · Post by **handle** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:13 am

Also, I can't really see these things as being durable enough in the prototype stage to use on a daily basis. More research will probably be needed before we have robotic manipulators with skin-based sensors, let alone actual realistic human-like skins for human-like androids.

droidlvr · Post by **droidlvr** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:19 pm

Go Japan.