Japanese scientists engineer electricity conducting rubber
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Japanese researchers say they have developed a rubber that can efficiently conduct electricity, opening the way for a stretchable "e-skin" for robots that will be able to feel heat and pressure like humans.
According to the team at the University of Tokyo, the material is the first in the world to solve the problems faced by metals - which are conductive but do not stretch and rubber, is stretchy but is unable to carry a current.
