The Electronic skins (e-skins) she is not new to her world information technologys, these are electronic materials that are like human skin with much more properties.
Some of them are to change colors and act as portable screens or have heating capabilities with thermal control.
Korean researchers managed to add the ability to "smell" along with it detection for human touch (touch).
There have been many previous attempts at it construction e-skin which is as close as possible to a human organ, however, this new design brings ever closer efforts to achieve this goal.
Researchers at Global enviroment Frontier Program of MSIP, have come up with an "odor" e-skin that senses touch as well as smell. This e-skin was created with mechanical properties of nanocomposites and can simultaneously detect biological and tactile stimuli, just like human skin.
This new development not only can help robots have a flexible electronic skin like humans, but they can also smell the things around them and perceive tactile stimuli just like humans.
From then on, it can also help in the development of medical applications, which will be extremely useful when it comes to skin grafts in the event of an accident or burns.
Source: thegreeksenergy.com, whowired.com
