Electronic skin giving robots ‘power of human touch’ developed in Scotland

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗

An Edinburgh-based robotics company called Touchlab is developing robot ‘skin’ that can be wrapped around any surface and will allow robots to “feel texture, and sense pain like a human would,” the company claims. The e-skin, which uses a technology called quantum tunneling, allows robots to sense pressure and sensations such as slippage rather than […]

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