How much will you trust on the robot technology? We have seen that technology is growing rapidly and changing the tradition of the world. For instance, we have seen automated cars and a few days back scientist is working on the ships.
But this time they have developed the artificial skin for the robots just like human being. Do you believe that?
It is always believed that one-day technology will surpass the human interaction and world interact with machinery. The modern world has shown technology is becoming part of our life!
What is the idea behind artificial skin?
The scientist belonging from the US has developed the artificial skin which is flexible. This skin will be grafted on the robots in the near future. The idea of the invention is to encourage human behavior with the robots while performing certain tasks.
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed technology that has the same sensitivity as a human hand. This skin can be stretched over robotic fingers or prosthetics to improve their applications.
The robots will perform everyday tasks by accurately sensing the vibrations and essential for gripping and manipulating objects.
How does this skin prepare?
- The team of engineers made the skin from same silicon rubber found in swimming goggles. This skin is embedded with tiny channels and each channel is filled with electronically conductive liquid metal.
- Whenever the skin faces a vibration and pressure, the electricity flowing through channels change as geometry is distorted. It seems to be the future of technology and also helpful for humans.
- While designing the product the scientist rely on the cues of a human body in order to create sensors. This will help the robot to perform human tasks such as opening a door, interacting with phone and shaking hands.
What are the expectations of the researchers?
The professor and co-author of the research added that tactile sensors of the artificial skin have many capabilities. They can sense normal, shear forces or vibrations and this shows that future is amazing. Our technology is only capable of these three modalities and many new possibilities are available.
We are working to add further machine learning algorithm in this skin and make future bright. By mimicking human physiology in a flexible electronic skin, we have achieved a level of sensitivity and precision and it remains breakthrough.
We actually want the working of skin just like a human hand and this skin will do so!
Is artificial skin developed for the first time?
- This is not the first time that scientists have worked for the artificial skin. They claim that this technology with tactile sensors will advance the previous one.
- This time robot is capable of performing multiple household tasks with similar precision to humans. The robot is capable of learning the items and potential applications such as a procedure to frying an egg.
This shows that there is no ending of technology especially when it comes to the artificial intelligence. Recently, researchers are planning for the first head transplant experiment and it amazes the people.
Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
