Scottish engineers have created ultra-sensitive electronic skin for prosthetics.

She reacts to heat, cold, pain and learns from her feelings. Engineers took as a basis the mechanisms of the human peripheral nervous system - it processes sensory information and transmits it to the brain. The e-skin-covered roboarm quickly recoils upon contact with unpleasant stimuli. The speed is driven by a network of synaptic transistors - learning devices that simultaneously process and store information, just like the human brain. The network of synaptic transistors in the material is the main difference between this electronic skin and analogues. Other types of artificial leather use computer-connected temperature and pressure sensors. The transfer of information between them slows down the reaction to stimuli.