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New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin – EurekAlert
New pain-sensing prototype mimics the body’s near-instant feedback response and reacts to painful sensations with the same lighting speed that nerve signals travel to the brain.
It’s a significant advance towards next-generation biomedical technologies, s…
IMAGE: A concept image of electronic skin that can sense touch, pain, and heat.
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Credit: Ella Maru Studio
Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.
The prototype device developed by a team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, can electronically replicate the way human skin senses pain.
The device mimics the body’s near-i…
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