Robots Could Go Full ‘terminator’ After Scientists Create Realistic, Self-healing Skin " Layers of Synthetic Skin That Can Now Self-recognize and Align With Each Other When Injured, Simultaneously Allowing the Skin to Continue Functioning While Healing."
Robots could soon be cloaked in human-like synthetic skin, similar to the cyborg assassin of the “Terminator” movie franchise, after Stanford University researchers developed an ultra-realistic, self-healing material. According to Fox News , Researchers have been studying and developing convincing skin materials for robots for years, with Stanford professor Zhenan Bao touting the first multi-layer self-healing synthetic electronic skin back in 2012. More than a decade later, Bao and fellow researchers have taken their studies even further into the future: layers of synthetic skin that can now self-recognize and align with each other when injured, simultaneously allowing the skin to continue functioning while healing. “We’ve achieved what we believe to be the first demonstration of a multi-layer, thin film sensor that automatically realigns during healing,” Christopher B. Cooper, Stanford Ph.D. student and co-author of the study, told SWNS. “This is a critical step toward mimicking...