This UNC team may have come up with a way to give robots skin and muscle
Posted Jun 22, 2018
A UNC-Chapel Hill professor may have a line on how to solve one of the problems scientists and engineers have to crack before they can build robots that look and move like living things. Chemist Sergei Sheiko and his team have figured how they can make silicone gels that perform, mechanically, a lot more like skin and muscle. They're now making kilograms of the stuff.
(Durham Herald-Sun)
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