Sentences with phrase «electronic skin»

Existing electronic skins can sense temperature changes of less than a tenth of a degree Celsius across a 5 - degree temperature range.

Scientists are reporting a breakthrough in which they have integrated solar cells into a graphene - based electronic skin, raising the possibility of prosthetic limbs that are both sensitive to touch and entirely self - powered.

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Electronic skin with an LED display can be used by athletes to show their heart rate — and could one day place a smartphone screen on the back of your hand

New types of solar cells and flexible transistors are also in the works, as well as pressure and temperature sensors that could be built into electronic skin for robotic or bionic applications.

The latest fashion is a type of electronic skin (philm) which can be programmed at will to look like a celebrity or anything else.

To speed the process and make it more accurate, investigators are researching electronic skins, evolutionary algorithms and other systems that can monitor the integrity of bridges, buildings, dams and other structures in real time.

The resulting electronic skin recognizes pokes and prods as changes in electric resistance.

«The self - healing sensor raises expectations that flexible devices might someday be self - administered, which increases their reliability,» explained co-developer Dr. Tan - Phat Huynh, also of the Technion, whose work focuses on the development of self - healing electronic skin.

«One day, the self - healing sensor could serve as a platform for biosensors that monitor human health using electronic skin.»

From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes.

The new skin can sense changes that are an order of magnitude smaller and have a responsivity that is two orders of magnitude larger than those of other electronic skins over a 45 - degree temperature range.

Researchers say this fundamental knowledge will be useful for developing electronic skin, prosthetics that can feel, advanced haptic technology for virtual and augmented reality and more.

«Color - shifting electronic skin could have wearable tech and prosthetic uses.»

To tackle this, Charlie Kemp of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and colleagues created a flexible electronic skin studded with 384 sensors that detect very slight touch.

Now, however, researchers in China have developed a new type of user - interactive electronic skin, with a colour change perceptible to the human eye, and achieved with a much - reduced level of strain.

A new electronic skin can feel the raspy texture of sandpaper, the beat of someone's pulse and even heat.

«In the future, we could combine these techniques for real, operational electronic skin,» says Ko.

This isn't the first time the concept of color - changing electronic skins has been tossed around, but Philips is a big name, and they have big plans that extend beyond your portable gadgets.

His team is now reporting a breakthrough in which it has integrated solar cells into a graphene - based electronic skin, raising the possibility of prosthetic limbs that are both sensitive to touch and entirely self - powered.

The advancement has many potential applications, including electronic skin (thin electronic material that mimics human skin, often used in robotic and health applications), bendable display screens and electronic paper.

While Wang has already developed self - healing versions of lithium - ion batteries, artificial muscles for use in the robotics industry, electronic skins and soon a touch panel, he notes that his polymer has limited mechanical properties, lacking the necessary strength and impact resistance required by most consumer devices.

Ostensibly, the purpose behind the patent, titled «Coupling an Electronic Skin Tattoo to a Mobile Device,» is «reducing acoustic noise with an auxiliary voice input.»

«Electronic skin,» for example, could use flexible electronics to wirelessly track health statistics, monitoring blood pressure and other vital signs.

Electronic skins, known as e-skins, have been in development for years.

Electronic skin could also restore sensation to people who have lost their natural skin, he says, such as burn victims or amputees.

Rogers says another application of the technology is to custom fit the «electronic skin» around entire organs, allowing doctors to remotely monitor changes in temperature and blood flow.

«With carbon nanotubes, a path to flexible, low - cost sensors: Potential applications range from air - quality monitors to electronic skin.»

Future possible applications could include the creation of «electronic skin» and prosthetic limbs that allow wearers to «feel» changes in their environments.

«Self - healing sensor brings «electronic skin» closer to reality.»

Their innovation — creating tiny sheets of strong yet bendable electronic materials made of select polymers and nanowires — could lead to improvements in smart clothing, electronic skin and other applications that require pliable circuitry.

Any pressure against the electronic skin increases conductivity through the film.

Engineers at the University of Nebraska reported in June that they had developed a way to give robots a sense of touch: electronic skin that is cheap, flexible, and twice as sensitive as a human fingertip.

A new kind of stretchy «electronic skin» (blue patch) is the first to be able to detect directional pressure.

Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin.

«New malleable «electronic skin» self - healable, recyclable.»

Hyunhyub Ko and colleagues explain that electronic skins are flexible, film - like devices designed to detect pressure, read brain activity, monitor heart rate or perform other functions.

Ko's team decided to work on an electronic skin based on the structure of our own so it could «feel» in three dimensions.

«New «electronic skin» for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions.»

It can also help researchers designing stretchable batteries and electronic skin, hydrogel - based electronic patches packed with sensors for taking vital signs and communicating with outside devices.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self - healing and fully recyclable «electronic skin» that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices.

For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable «electronic skin» closely modeled after our own that can detect not just pressure, but also what direction it's coming from.

The same year, she co-led the work that became known as «electronic skin» or «electronic tattoos.»

Engineers have created an electronic skin that can sense pressure, textures, temperatures — even sound.

Scientists are reporting a breakthrough in which they have integrated solar cells into a graphene - based electronic skin, raising the possibility of prosthetic limbs that are both sensitive to touch and entirely self - powered.