We have all wondered – depending on your point of view- how wonderful or disastrous it would be for robots to actually mimic us as emotional and sensitive beings! Whatever your view if it is possible for oil and metal to feel what living creatures feel, there are some advancements in robotics that just draws us a step closer to creating a “sentient” machine.

Korean and American researchers have created a stretchable material covered with electronic sensors so much that it can feed back pressure, temperature, even moisture.

This “skin” can be placed on prosthetic limbs to help the wearer feel and sense! This will take some time yet before it can be applicable in reality, as connecting it to live nerves is still to be fully achieved.