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3D Printed Skin Can Give Robotic Hands a Human Touch

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This new breakthrough could help restore a sense of touch to amputees who rely on prosthetic limbs.

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In the 1970s, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, made an unsettling hypothesis: The more lifelike a robot became, the more creepy humans would find it.

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