Transcript by www.newsy.com BY SAMANTHA MCCLENDON You're watching multisource tech news analysis from Newsy Androids of the future may be wearing a skin that can feel the touch of a butterfly. A Stanford University researcher recently introduced her human-like robot skin that is flexible, light-weight, solar powered, and can sense chemicals. CNN lays out its composition. "The skin is made of highly elastic rubber with electric sensors on the edges. The thin film of rubber is molded into a grid of tiny pyramids." The skin can shrink and expand -- and some are already speculating what the future may hold. A writer for Fast Company says this new skin quote "...makes your meatbag covering look pathetic." ASM International quotes inventor, Zhenan (Ji-nin) Bao -- who says the robot skin does go beyond what human skin can do. "You can imagine a robot hand that can be used to touch some liquid and detect certain markers or a certain protein that is associated with some kind of disease and the robot will be able to effectively say, 'Oh, this person has that disease...'" And as a writer for Popular Science speculates -- the potential uses go much further than that. "If it could be wired to human nerves, it could allow patients with prosthetics to gain back feeling in their missing limbs. It could also one day coat cars, or be worked into clothing such as soldiers' uniforms, working simultaneously as a biosensor and solar power generator." So from clothing to buildings, this robot <b>...</b>
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