Pressure sensors in use today arefairly capable, being sufficiently flexible to adhere to unevensurfaces like human skin. However, once they're twisted moresignificantly, they're unable to accurately ...

Silicone is so soft and flexible that it is easily deformed by the pressure of a finger. Researchers at Fraunhofer have recently created sensors made from this flexible material, making it easier to ...

Healthcare practitioners may one day be able to physically screen for breast cancer using pressure-sensitive rubber gloves to detect tumors, owing to a transparent, bendable and sensitive pressure ...

Flexible pressure sensors are essential parts of an electronic skin to allow future biomedical prostheses and robots to naturally interact with humans and the environment. Mobile biomonitoring in long ...

A newly developed pressure sensor could help car manufacturers design safer automobiles and even help Little League players hold their bats with a better grip, scientists report. The study describing ...

An ultrathin, flexible pressure sensor that has touch sensitivity almost like humans' could pave the way for artificial skin. Pressure sensors are used in all kinds of applications, including touch ...

In recent years, with the rapid development of flexible electronic skins, high-performance flexible tactile sensors have received more attention and have been used in many fields such as artificial ...

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is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. LG’s materials and components subsidiary, LG Innotek, has developed a new type of flexible, textile pressure ...

Imagine an automobile crash test that uses test dummies painted all over with a substance that can change color according to the levels of stress that various parts of the dummies' bodies will endure.

"We've also tested the performance of our pressure sensor with an artificial blood vessel and found that it could detect small pressure changes and speed of pressure propagation," says Lee. He ...