Stanford researcher's new stretchable solar cells will power artificial electronic 'super skin'

[Dave Monroe]

"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,'" she said. "Or the robot
might touch the sweat from somebody and be able to say, 'Oh, this
person is drunk.'"

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