"While we've been able to create stretchable electronics and actuators that are soft and conformal, they often don't mimic biology in their ability to respond to damage and then initiate self-repair." ...

Engineers are one step closer to creating robots that are able to self-heal their injuries through damage-detecting skin.<br ...

To fill that gap, his team developed an intelligent, self-healing artificial muscle featuring a multi-layer architecture that enables the system to identify and locate damage, then initiate a self ...