Artificial 'Skin' Could Provide Prosthetics with Sensation (1 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Artificial 'Skin' Could Provide Prosthetics with Sensation (1 of 8)

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Robotic hand with artificial mechanoreceptors shaking hands with human. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.C.K. Tee at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "A skin-inspired organic digital mechanoreceptor."

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Bao Research Group, Stanford University

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