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Published online 30 June 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040628-14

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Robots get sensitive

Electronic skin could give machines a sophisticated sense of touch.

Robots are about to get more feeling. An electronic skin as sensitive to touch as our own is being developed by scientists in Japan.

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