Self-healing robotics

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Self-healing robotics

Artificial limbs, also called prosthetics, are getting more and more like real human body parts. Engineers have created an artificial arm that connects to the wearer’s brain and allows them to move it just like a real arm. The development of materials that act like skin means that prosthetics of the future will become even more realistic.

Human arms are complicated structures made out of lots of different tissues that each perform a different job.The bones form the structure. Muscles attached to the bones change length to move them and a layer of skin wraps around everything.You might think that the skin is just a covering for the arm, something that holds everything else inside. But your skin is more than that. It contains receptors that can detect heat, pain and pressure. It is waterproof and self-healing. If you cut your skin, it repairs itself.