Solar-Powered Artificial Skin

Solar-Powered Artificial Skin
Mar-25-17
A solar-powered artificial skin could offer an energy-efficient way to give prosthetics a sense of touch.

Typical prosthetics require a lot of energy from an external power source. The new artificial skin, from the University of Glasgow, is made up of transparent, graphene-based pressure sensors that require only 20 nanowatts per square centimeter—which can be generated by incident light. The sensors sit on top of the photovoltaic cells, and can detect pressure as low as0.11 kPa.



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