A new graphene-based material could be made into "skin" for a robot or used to make prosthetic hands more sensitive than real ones.
The graphene-based cellular elastomer, or G-elastomer, was developed by researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who say other potential uses are to create soft, tactile robots to help care for elderly people or in the performance of remote surgical procedures.
“This graphene elastomer is a flexible, ultra-light material which can detect pressures and vibrations across a broad bandwidth of frequencies," says one its inventors, Ling Qiu.
"It far exceeds the response range of our skin, and it also has a very fast response time, much faster than conventional polymer elastomer."
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