Artificial skin can sense 1000 times faster than human nerves

An artificial skin that senses temperature and pressure can send signals 1000 times faster than the human nervous system. The skin could one day cover prosthetic limbs to help people use them better or be used on robots to help them sense their surroundings. Benjamin Tee at the National University of Singapore and his colleagues created the artificial skin, consisting of physical sensors that can detect pressure, bend, and temperature, placed inside a layer of plastic. All of the sensors are connected together using a single wire, meaning that the measurement from across the skin arrive at the same time."In If you have 1000 sensors, and each one takes 1 millisecond to scan, then the entire scanning operation will take 1 full second."