Electric skin developed to boost self-awareness in soft robots

The E-skin can help soft robots better understand their own movements (Yunjie Yang/PA)

A team of scientists has developed electronic skin that could pave the way for flexible robotic devices to assist with surgical procedures or aid people’s mobility.

The stretchable e-skin, developed at the University of Edinburgh, is used on soft robots to provide them, for the first time, with a level of physical self-awareness similar to that of people and animals.