Artificial 'Skin' Gives Robotic Hand a Sense of Touch
From: ECN Magazine - 09/14/2017

A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a
breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an artificial skin,
allowing a robotic hand to sense the difference between hot and cold, while
also offering advantages for a wide range of biomedical devices.

The skin also was able to interpret computer signals sent to the hand and
reproduce the signals as American Sign Language. "The robotic skin can
translate the gesture to readable letters that a person like me can
understand and read," Cunjiang Yu, one of the researchers, said.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/09/artificial-skin-gives-robotic-hand-sense-touch
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uoh-ag091317.php
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/27593
http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/SEPTEMBER%2017/09132017Yu-Stretchy-Electronics.php
https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/28076

Links:
Cunjiang Yu
http://www.me.uh.edu/faculty/yu
http://yu.me.uh.edu/?page_id=229

Artificial Skin for Robotic Hands
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2017/09/photo-day-artificial-skin-robotic-hands

Stretchy Artificial 'Skin' Could Give Robots a Sense of Touch
https://www.livescience.com/60386-robots-artificial-skin-stretchy-semiconductor.html

Rubbery electronics and sensors from intrinsically stretchable elastomeric
  composites of semiconductors and conductors
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1701114

Robots with More Common Senses
http://news.thomasnet.com/featured/robots-with-more-common-senses