Conformable, flexible, large-area networks of pressure and thermal sensors with organic transistor active matrixes.

ABSTRACT: Skin-like sensitivity, or the capability to recognize tactile information, will be an essential feature of future generations of robots, enabling them to operate in unstructured environments. Recently developed large-area pressure sensors made with organic transistors have been proposed for electronic artificial skin (E-skin) applications. These sensors are bendable down to a 2-mm radius, a size that is sufficiently small for the fabrication of human-sized robot fingers. Natural human skin, however, is far more complex than the transistor-based imitations demonstrated so far. It performs other functions, including thermal sensing. Furthermore, without conformability, the application of E-skin on three-dimensional surfaces is impossible. In this work, we have successfully developed conforma

SUBMITTER: Someya T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1187825 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature