right? every day we do a segment called the big i- about big new ideas and innovations. how about this? skin for a robot that can actually feel touch, sense chemicals, and is solar powered. this incredible invention comes from researchers at stanford university. the skin is stretchable. it can expand and shrink which makes it a perfect fit for robots. touch screen displays and human prosthetic limbs. the skin is made of highly elastic rubber with electric sensors on the edges. the thin film of rubber is molded into a grid of tiny pyramids. it is so sensitive it can detect the weight of a butterfly. the skin has also been modified to detect chemicals by adding a biological coating to the skin and in another brilliant move they also added a flexible solar cell layer to help generate power. you can see variations of this skin for cars, military veeb vehicles, maybe even clothing. for more head to cnn.com/ali.
from 2010 levels. an attack on the afghan capital killed at least two people. a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a kabul shopping mall. the taliban claimed responsibility. crime scene investigators are drooling all over themselves at this next story. imagine being able to pick fingerprints up off of fabric. well, a group of researchers in europe have done just that. it is today s big i. joining us live to talk about this, and how it works, david bremner, a professor and research leader at scotland s university. he joins us live from the university. welcome. and let s start with how this process works. how do you get fingerprints from fabric? well, it seems very, very complicated, but actually it s relatively simple. what you do is you get the fabric material and you put it into a large oven, it s called, but in fact it s like a trash
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