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on robot dexterity for several years now trying to give the machines human-like sensitivity. This has been no easy task as even the most advanced machines struggle with this concept.
Now, Professor of Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, Nathan Lepora, from the University of Bristol’s Department of Engineering Maths and based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory may have made a key breakthrough in this area,“Our work helps uncover how the complex internal structure of human skin creates our human sense of touch.
How did this ambitious team of researchers create a human-like sense of touch? Well, they drew inspiration from actual skin. They used a 3D-printed mesh of pin-like papillae on the underside of the compliant skin, which imitated the dermal papillae found between the outer epidermal and inner dermal layers of actual human skin. They then further used advanced 3D printers that can combine soft and hard materials to create the kind of structures only found in biological assets up to now.
“Our aim is to make artificial skin as good – or even better - than real skin,” concluded Professor Lepora. The end result could have many applications in soft robotics
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