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Researchers Engineer Novel Material capable of ‘Thinking’

man holds rubber block in one hand and squeezed rubber block in other hand
Penn State researchers create mechanical integrated circuit materials from conductive and non-conductive rubber materials that sense and react to tactile input, such as force. Credit: Kelby Hochriether/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Collaboration builds on decades-old research to engineer advanced material. Someone taps your shoulder. The organized touch receptors in your skin send a message to your brain, which processes the information and directs you to look left, in the direction of the tap. Now, Penn State and U.S. Air Force researchers have harnessed this processing of mechanical information and integrated it into engineered materials that “think.”

The work, published today (Aug. 24) in Nature, hinges on a novel, reconfigurable alternative to integrated circuits...

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