Japanese researchers behind the development of this new rubber say it can conduct electricity pretty well and makes the stretchable material the ideal “e-skin” for robots to enable them to feel both heat and pressure.
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Researchers reveal rubber skin for Robots
August 12, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson
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Tags: artificial, carbon, engineering, eskin, Japanese, News, Robots, skin, synthetic
Metal Gear Solid 4 makes Sony top dog in Japanese sales charts
June 23, 2008, 9:30 am by Stephen Ebert
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Tags: charts, Console, DS, Gaming, Japanese, metal gear solid, PS2, PS3, PSP, sales, Sony, Wii, Xbox360
Last week we reported that the PSP was holding onto the number one slot in hardware sales in Japan, by quite a margin. Now last week’s release of Metal Gear Solid 4 means both the PSP and PS3 are way ahead in the Land of The Rising Sun.
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