Sunday 26 March 2017

Printable device points toward sensor-laden robot skin

In this age of smartphones and tablet computers, touch-sensitive surfaces are everywhere. They’re also brittle, as people with cracked phone screens everywhere can attest. Covering a robot – or an airplane or a bridge – with sensors will require a technology that is both flexible and cost-effective to manufacture in bulk. A team of researchers thinks that 3-D printing could be the answer.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170323105852.htm



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