Peratech Limited, the leader in new materials designed for touch technology solutions, has announced that it has been commissioned by the MIT Media Lab to develop a new type of electronic “skin” that enables robotic devices to detect not only that they have been touched but also where and how hard the touch was. The key to the sensing technology is Peratech’s patented “QTC” materials. QTCs, or Quantum Tunnelling Composites, are a unique new material type which provides a measured respon...