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E-textiles, robot 'skin' among advances at IEDM

From the article:

In another exotic application, arrays of pentacene organic transistors have been built into a flexible sheet to create a pressure-sensitive “skin” for robots at the Quantum Phase Electronics Center of the University of Tokyo. The sensor arrays are built layer by layer on polyimide films. The design could be realized with large-area printing technology to create low-cost, flexible membranes that could imbue robots with a sense of touch similar to that of the human hand, making them much more dextrous than in the past, the researchers said.

Robots don't have a sense of touch right now, but touch combined with vision and a little software makes it easy for robots to have dexterity similar to that of a human being.