A thin wearable sits flat on the skin and quietly turns body heat into power. Can this approach help us run devices without batteries?

The dream of battery-free devices has taken an unlikely turn, as Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin. The technology allows for electrical currents to travel through human skin in a ...

Scientists at a German research lab have created an ultra-thin, flexible electronic skin (e-skin) that can detect and track magnetic fields using a single global sensor. Unlike previous designs that ...

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain. Chinese researchers have built a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have developed an electronic skin that allows humanoid robots to distinguish everyday touch from damaging force. That ability, once reserved for living ...