NationStates Jolt Archive

Apparently, touch and feel things. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4154366.stm)
Japanese researchers have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch.

The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another capable of sensing temperature.

These are supple enough to wrap around robot fingers and relatively cheap to make, the researchers have claimed.


This, and QWhatsername that blocks slaps (for some reason that was the test that was reported in the article), the Japanese will not rest until they make DATA or something like it.
And they add that there is no need to stop at simply imitating the functions of human skin.

"It will be possible in the near future to make an electronic skin that has functions that human skin lacks," the researchers write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Future artificial skins could incorporate sensors not only for pressure and temperature, but also for light, humidity, strain or sound, they add.


Time to decide what side of the rights battle you'd be on. (insert quotes from the greatest Sealab 2021 episode ever here)

or

Decide what crazy abilities you want your robot to have.

*Simpsons quote.

Eventually they'll have robots that act as sexy but absued wives, so abusive men can marry them and get everything they want without harming another person. Yay!

Eventually they'll have robots that act as sexy but absued wives, so abusive men can marry them and get everything they want without harming another person. Yay!
I'm not sure how to feel. Bad, but...?

Certainly seems on track with touch sensitivity and slap blocking...

Creepy. I'm going to go with 'creeped out.' That feels about right.

I believe the robot girl from Tripping the Rift comes in mind. Just you wait, there'll be sexdroids everywhere.

*remembers Ghost in the Shell*

Mood Skin? Red for anger, blue for sad, pale for sickly.... and so on...

OR

Chameleon Skin, the next evolution of camouflage, allowing you to blend into your surrounding environment.

http://home.arcor.de/lulubaby/tx/cylon.jpg

...trouble, I say.

...trouble, I say.

For Six? Man..one can only hope..lol.

Mood Skin? Red for anger, blue for sad, pale for sickly.... and so on...

OR

Chameleon Skin, the next evolution of camouflage, allowing you to blend into your surrounding environment.

I think the military would love the camo skin idea. That's good thinking.

I'm surprised that no one's picked up on the fact that if it can be tied into the human nervous system, it can be placed on prostectic limbs and such, giving the person even more of their life back.

For Six? Man..one can only hope..lol.

We don't have Vipers yet... let alone BattleStars.

I for one, don't welcome our new Cylon overlords. :D

I think the military would love the camo skin idea. That's good thinking.

I'm surprised that no one's picked up on the fact that if it can be tied into the human nervous system, it can be placed on prostectic limbs and such, giving the person even more of their life back.

or EXTRA LIMBS,so I can rampage through New York thwarting that blasted SPIDER MAN wherever I see him!

Yeah, both of the above would be awesomely cool.

I'd use mine to be able to detect temperature. For example, when I put my hand in a bowl of boiling water, I would feel "ow, this is hot", and if I was flung out into the Artic in my underwear, I'd feel "this is really cold"


I'd be unique for sure.

We don't have Vipers yet... let alone BattleStars.

I for one, don't welcome our new Cylon overlords. :D

I'd welcome her. *nods* Forget Vipers,BattleStars and BaseStars...lol, Six and her counterparts are where it'll be at.

"It will be possible in the near future to make an electronic skin that has functions that human skin lacks," the researchers write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Future artificial skins could incorporate sensors not only for pressure and temperature, but also for light, humidity, strain or sound, they add.
*secretly wants it*
or EXTRA LIMBS,so I can rampage through New York thwarting that blasted SPIDER MAN wherever I see him!
Hey, you're like the opposite of those amputee-wannabe people!
:p

Hey, you're like the opposite of those amputee-wannabe people!
:p

I'm a small minority fighting for recognition! I've even stolen slogans to give me credence such as "We want 8 [limbs] and we won't wait!"*
It's only a matter of time before I'm approached by an odd Japanese businessman with a unique proposition.


This artificial skin stuff has a lot going for it though... seems we're making a lot of robotics/prosthetics breakthroughs recently, but I might just be thinking that.



*Slogan used by the British public in response to German dreadnought construction before world war one, the 8 in question being 8 new British battleships.

Nice. Lol. I wonder how long it will take for us to be able to create artificial organs. *Waits for the military to create an army of supersoldiers with 2 hearts, 3 lungs, and an extra liver for those 3-day passes*