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New Material Could Give Robots ‘Skin’ with a Sense of Touch July 14, 2021 A robotic hand with the AiFoam artificially innervated smart foam is pictured at National University Singapore on June 30, 2021. (REUTERS/Travis Teo) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:14 0:00 Researchers in Singapore have developed an electronic material that helps robots sense touch and nearby objects. The material is a kind of foam: a solid substance that is filled with air and is soft. And the foam has another useful quality. It repairs itself when damaged, much like human skin. The ...

Smart foam material gives robotic hand the ability to self-repair 07/05/2021 | 11:30pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields SINGAPORE, July 6 (Reuters) - Singapore researchers have developed a smart foam material that allows robots to sense nearby objects, and repairs itself when damaged, just like human skin. Artificially innervated foam, or AiFoam, is a highly elastic polymer created by mixing fluoropolymer with a compound that lowers surface tension. This allows the spongy material to fuse easily into one piece when cut, according to the researchers at the National University of Si...

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian city is bringing COVID-19 vaccines to its people with a growing fleet of inoculation buses, as the country faces a spike in infections after a major religious festival. Authorities in Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra have doubled to 10 the number of buses in its vaccination programme, since launching it on June 1, following a favourable response from the public, who are happy with the convenience. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 270 million people, is bracing for a peak in coronavirus infections after the Eid al-Fitr festival last month th...

2 Min Read HONG KONG (Reuters) - The growl of a chainsaw fills the air as a dead longan tree is felled under the watchful eye of Ricci Wong, founder of a Hong Kong non-profit to turn tree waste into furniture and other household products. Farmers and arborists working with private enterprises or government departments call the group to collect the wood whenever they spot fallen or dying trees that need to be removed. Wong established HK Timberbank after Typhoon Mangkhut in September 2018, an intense storm that uprooted tens of thousands of trees in the territory, when he saw what was being se...

By Travis Teo and Lee Ying Shan SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Staying overnight at an airport isn't unheard of, especially if you miss a flight. But choosing to spend your holidays there in a tent is something entirely different. With the coronavirus pandemic severely limiting trips abroad, some in Singapore this holiday season are going "glamping", or glamourous camping, staying overnight in luxury tents at the retail and leisure wing of the city-state's Changi Airport. "Usually we go out of the country every holiday but since we can't travel much and it's a school holiday, I thought why not...