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Pain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin grafts – The Conversation AU
A new silicone ‘skin’ contains electronics that mimic the human body’s lightning-fast response to pain, potentially paving the way for smart prosthetics that can detect painful sensations.
Skin is our largest organ, made up of complex sensors constantly monitoring for anything that might cause us pain. Our new technology replicates that electronically.
The electronic artificial skin weve developed reacts to pain stimuli just like real skin, and paves the way for better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.
Our prototype device mimics the bodys near-instant feedback response and can react to painful sensations with the same lighting speed at …
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