« Summer in Austin | Main | Meteor crash » Robotic replication of human touchUsing "a very thin film made up of layers of metal and semiconducting nanoparticles flanked at the top and bottom by electrodes," scientists at the University of Nebraska have replicated human touch with a high level of sensitivity. Professor Ravi Saraf, one of the scientists behind the technology, stresses its medical value: "The hope is that if you have the resolution close to a human finger in applications like minimal invasive surgery, where the surgeon could actually 'touch' while he or she doing the procedure and tell if the tissue is cancerous or abnormal etc, that would increase the success of these surgeries." [Link] jon posted this at 9:12 AM |
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