In a peculiar and intriguing turn of events, a gorilla named Anaka at Zoo Atlanta has become the focal point of a captivating ...

A team from the University at Buffalo has developed an electronic textile (E-textile) that mimics how human skin senses ...

That synthetic skin can also be melted down and reconfigured into new shapes. In this case, the researchers wanted to see if it would still function when molded into the shape of a human hand.

In 2018, the team behind the new study developed electronic skin inspired by human skin. The material, or E-dermis, sensed textures and transmitted them to surviving nerves in an amputee’s arm with ...