Thursday, 2 November 2017

Jellyfish-inspired electronic skin glows when it gets hurt

Electronic-skin technologies for prosthetics and robots can detect the slightest touch or breeze. But oddly, the sensors that make this possible do not respond effectively to a harmful blow. Now researchers report the development of a jellyfish-inspired electronic skin that glows when the pressure against it is high enough to potentially cause an injury.

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Big leap forward for environmentally friendly 'e-textiles' technology

A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and biodegradable.