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Washington State University researchers built an electronic skin that senses temperature and pressure. Here is what the research is actually claiming.

Researchers at Washington State University developed an electronic skin capable of detecting both pressure and temperature at what the reporting describes as ten times the resolution of prior work. Here is what the two sensing modalities mean, why temperature is the less-obvious part of the claim, and where this sits in the pipeline to a prosthetic appointment.

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