Artificial skin for robots soaks in solar juice and senses touch

Ahead in time, robots will soon boast an advanced super-intelligent skin system. The skin designed by a Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao can sense touch, sense chemicals and soak up energy from the sun too, making it almost-similar to human skin. Using a stretchable solar cell system that can expand and shrink along two different axes, the development could help develop clothing and human prosthetic limbs with some pretty cutting-edge technology ahead. This technological development will help the bots who’ll pretty soon end up doing our bidding in the future to power up constantly with solar energy.

A commendable development indeed, this artificial skin will pave the way for more-intelligent robots in the future and lend an equally helping hand in human prosthetics.
[FastCompany]