# New artificial skin lets robots grasp 0.5mm pencil lead and avoid needle pricks

- Source: Tech Xplore Robotics
- Published: 2026-10-27T11:10:02.000Z
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- Original: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-artificial-skin-robots-grasp-pencil.html

## Summary

Researchers from Southern University of Science and Technology and other institutions published NI-skins artificial skin in Nature Machine Intelligence; it reads more than 10,000 sensing elements per second and processes signals hierarchically, taking about 23 milliseconds from sensing to interpretation.