Oscillating gel acts like artificial skin,giving robots capability to 'feel'

摘要

Sooner than later, robots may have the capability to "feel." In a paper published online March 26 in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated that a nonoscillating gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation. These findings pave the way for the development of new applications that sense mechanical stimuli and responds chemically-a natural phenomenon few materials have been able to mimic.