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Advances in material design and applications of electronic skins: From human body to embodied intelligent robots
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Embodied intelligence is driving a transition from mechanically reactive robots to systems capable of adaptive and autonomous interaction. Electronic skin (e-skin) plays a central role in this shift by enabling high-resolution tactile perception, multimodal environmental sensing, and safe human-robot collaboration. Here, the material foundations and structural design strategies that underpin next-generation e-skin technologies have been systematically reviewed. Specifically, it discusses the advances in toughness, fatigue resistance, self-healing property, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and soft stretchable conductors, together with multiscale architectures such as micro-structured interfaces, porous and layered networks, microneedle-based designs, reconfigurable topologies, and integrated circuits used in e-skins. It also highlights representative applications in tactile sensing, exercise rehabilitation, and physiological monitoring, and outlines emerging directions toward closed-loop systems that couple sensing, computation, and decision-making for embodied intelligent robots. These developments point to intelligent, energy-efficient, and scalable e-skin systems capable of supporting embodied robots operating robustly in real-world environments.
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