Scientists create sensitive robot that can 'feel' heat, cold and pain

Electronic skin that will allow robots to feel heat, cold and pain could be "life changing" for people with prostheses and paralysis, its creator has claimed. Professor Gordon Cheng led a project at the Technical University of Munich to cover a robot with 1,260 small hexagonal plates, giving it an electronic skin. Individual sensor cells placed in a honeycomb arrangement on the upper body, arms, legs and soles of the feet of the robot meant it could measure proximity, pressure, temperature and acceleration. This same technology could allow people with prosthetic limbs or paralysis recover feeling and use their sense of touch more easily, Prof Cheng claimed. He said: "We adapted it in the same...