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Artificial Robot Skin May Offer Virus Protection

A new chemical-sensing robot skin is being developed at Caltech, providing robots a newfound ability to sense infectious bacteria, viruses, and more.

"Modern robots are playing a more and more important role in security, farming, and manufacturing," says Wei Gao  , Caltech's assistant professor of medical engineering. "Can we give these robots a sense of touch and a sense of temperature? Can we also make them sense chemicals like explosives and nerve agents or biohazards like infectious bacteria and viruses? We're working on this."

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    00:00:02 Our skin continuously adapts its shape and sensitivity, instantly informing us of potential dangers as well as possible pleasures. To generate artificial awareness Our team has integrated a variety of sensors from temperature, pressure and chemical onto a fully printed electronic interface, allowing for ultra sensitive and autonomous robotic perception. The m-bot will sense the small electromagnetic pulses in the arm and interpret that user's intention within milliseconds. This A.I.model will then automatically mimic the user's movement on the robotic arm as they pull away. In our design, we developed customized nanomaterial inks for inkjet printing, allowing for a low-cost

    00:00:43 and scalable sensor platform. Our technology could be adapted to other autonomous platforms, providing situational awareness for smart robotic decision-making to aid environmental protection, security and public health.