Skin builds bridges"

The application of e-skin is by no means limited to the field of medicine, and like 3D printing, big data and other innovative scientific and technological achievements, e-skin will bring about qualitative changes in certain fields.

At present, even the world's most realistic and bionic prosthetic limbs are difficult to realize the breakthrough of the sense of touch. Electronic skin with tactile capabilities, however, is fully capable of enabling prosthetic limbs to understand movements such as touching, bending, or pressing, helping those equipped with prosthetic limbs to regain their senses.

Outside of the medical field, electronic skin will undoubtedly be a revolution in the development of intelligent robots. Robot design has long been to achieve visual and auditory functions, and can carry out some complex technical operations, but because the skin is precisely the robot technology development is easy to be ignored in the part of the direct result of the bulky "armor" is often difficult to detect multi-directional tactile three-dimensional force, it is difficult to appreciate the power required to pick up an apple or a cup of the strength of the The difference.

Electronic skin, with its pressure-sensitive properties and flexibility, could solve the robot design challenge, both by sensitizing the robot to its environment and by giving it mechanical dexterity.

Electronic skin is also promising for wearable devices, which will lead future IT trends. As a highly sophisticated device that can be embedded in or cover the human body, there is no need to wear electronic monitoring equipment to track heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and other indicators for chronically ill patients in the future, and electronic skin is the best indicator of human health.

For example, electronic skin and smart watches and wristbands, etc., only need to electronic skin output electrical graphic signals to be compared and analyzed, you can realize the "smart pulse". Scientists also envisioned that the use of devices equipped with electronic skin to monitor the throat muscle movement produced by the weak pressure changes, the pressure change signal can be converted into voice, for the deaf people as a "megaphone.

Electronic skin is going beyond the properties of skin itself. In terms of technology trends, e-skin bridges the gap between prosthetics, robotics, and wearables.