Artificial skin? We made it — here's why | Anna Maria Coclite

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite unveils "smart skin" — artificial skin technology that responds to touch, temperature and humidity like your very own. (It's actually even more sensitive than human skin!) From helping burn victims to paving the way to smarter, safer humanoid robots, Coclite highlights the broad-ranging potential of this innovation.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	Burn victims don't just lose their skin.
0:14.7	They lose the feeling of sensation on their skin.
0:18.8	Physicist Anna Maria Coqulete
0:21.0	is working on artificial skin that wearers can feel. In her
0:25.6	2022 talk from Ted X Vienna she tells us how it works and the promises it holds
0:31.1	after a break.
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1:05.0	I am a chemist by education and I worked in the field of material science,
1:10.0	which is a very interdisciplinary field since almost 20 years now.
1:15.0	First as a PhD student in Italy, I'm Barry and then at MIT as a postdoc and now I am group leader in grads.
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