---
title: "“Smart” Skin Applied On Prosthetic Limbs Can Replicate The Sense Of Touch"
description: "Researchers at the Seoul National University, Republic of Korea developed a skin that can stretch over the entire prosthesis, with an embedded ultrathin, single crystalline silicone nanoribbon, which"
date: "2014-12-09"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Amber Raynolds"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/amber24"
url: "https://futurism.com/smart-skin-applied-on-prosthetic-limbs-can-replicate-the-sense-of-touch"
categories:
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "materials"
---

# “Smart” Skin Applied On Prosthetic Limbs Can Replicate The Sense Of Touch

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/skin1.jpg>)

- The sensors include pressure and temperature arrays and associated humidity and strain sensors, electroresistive heaters and more
- The collection of stretchable sensors and actuators facilitate highly localised mechanical and thermal skin-like perception in response to external stimuli
- The skin allows for faster response times and also more closely replicates the abilities of real skin to sense the world