Solar-Powered Graphene Skin Enables Prosthetics to Feel
From: IEEE Spectrum - 03/30/2017
By: Megan Scudellari

There are no commercially available prosthetics that restore a sense of touch
to those who have lost a limb.

Several products are in development, including a haptic system at Case
Western Reserve University, which would enable upper-limb prosthetic users
to, say, pluck a grape off a stem or pull a potato chip out of a bag. It
sounds simple, but such tasks are virtually impossible without a sense of
touch and pressure.

Now, a team at the University of Glasgow that previously developed a flexible
‘electronic skin’ capable of making sensitive pressure measurements, has
figured out how to power their skin with sunlight. That renewable energy
could be used to power an array of sensors to add feeling to an artificial
limb.

Read the entire article and view videos (0:29 & 0:48) at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/solarpowered-skin-for-artificial-limbs

Links:
Energy-Autonomous, Flexible, and Transparent Tactile Skin
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201606287/full

Ravinder Dahiya
http://rsdahiya.com

Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/creating-a-prosthetic-hand-that-can-feel

Prosthetic Hand Restores Amputee's Sense of Touch (with video 2:28)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/biomedical/bionics/prosthetic-hand-restores-amputees-sense-of-touch

Artificial Skin Can Feel and Heal
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/materials/artificial-skin-can-feel-and-heal

Solar-Powered Prosthetic Skin Could Return Sense of Touch to Amputees (with video 0:21)
http://www.techbriefs.tv/video/Solar-Powered-Prosthetic-Skin-C%3bElectronics-Computers

Solar-powered skin opens new possibilities for prosthetics
http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_519151_en.html