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'An ultra-thin wearable device capable of reproducing the localized sensation
of touch had been developed at the Center for Materials Interfaces of the
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology, IIT), in
Pontedera, Italy. The technology is described in a recent paper published in
the journal
Advanced Electronic Materials.
Touch is a fundamental sense, and touching the surrounding environment and
perceiving tactile sensations from external stimuli is an almost fully
automatic skill, fundamental to daily tasks. Therefore, replicating tactile
sensations in artificial wearable devices could find multiple important uses,
such as reproducing sensory feedback in amputees using a robotic limb,
controlling teleoperated robots with a higher precision, providing information
to blind people through so-called "Braille displays," or as interfaces in
virtual environments and gaming, enhancing the immersive experience of users.
The new system, developed by two IIT researchers, Arianna Mazzotta and Virgilio
Mattoli, is an electronic tattoo a few micrometers thick and designed to arouse
a tactile sensation, thus generating a force that pushes on the skin of the
person who is wearing it, which can then perceive a touch.
The research team has demonstrated the functioning of a single "tactile" dot,
and they are working on the implementation of displays that will include
several tactile pixels, called taxels, which can be activated independently
from each other to reproduce letters, numbers, as well as directional and
dynamic patterns on the skin.'
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Future Crunch:
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