Stanford University research team engineers are developing an artificial plastic skin with built-in sensors that "perceive" external pressure. This technology works like the iPhone fingerprinting technology and is expected to replace burned skin or prosthetic skin, allowing the patient to feel a "touch". Stanford University professor Zhenan Bao is the principal person in charge of the project, which mimics the receptors of human skin by adding sensors to artificial skin.
These sensors are capable of collecting ever-changing pressure data, and researchers hope that one day they will be able to "transmit" the data to the brain in some form. However, Zhenan Bao said that there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve such a goal, because this task requires a very powerful ability to process massive amounts of data.
To make the artificial skin more sensitive to external touches, the team reduced the size of the sensor to handle more pressure points similar to the millions of perceived receiving points on human skin.
Zhenan Bao and her team did not waste any time. Although this artificial skin may take years to improve before it can be put on the market, the team hopes to apply these sensors in new tests as soon as possible.
"As of now, we have not tested these sensors in living organisms or humans, so this is our next step," said Zhenan Bao.
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