Flexible "electronic skin" can "feel" touch, determine the temperature and humidity

Specialists from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) have created a material that in the future will help replace damaged skin areas that have lost sensitivity with new material. Well, or this material can be used as a “skin” for robots, why not? So, "Electronic Skin", developed by the specified research institute, really looks like skin, in appearance. In addition, the material is able to perceive a number of environmental parameters.

These parameters include temperature, humidity, plus the ability to feel the touch. At the same time, the material is inexpensive, in any case, in comparison with analogues. According to the developers, the sensitivity of the "skin" is 10 times higher than the sensitivity of any similar material.
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The developers also noted that the specified parameters are determined very accurately, with a small error. The "skin" itself is a multilayer material, with gold particles deposited on a metal base, which, in turn, is attached to a plastic base. And the thinner the plastic layer, the higher the sensitivity of the material.

Energy such a “skin” requires very little, so it is quite possible to install low-voltage batteries, which should be enough for a long time. Now there is a prototype that is fully capable of demonstrating all the advantages of a new material.

Via theverge