June 12 (UPI) -- Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have developed a skin that can be added to robot hands like a glove. It is not as sensitive as human skin but it can detect 860,000 different types of touch. The process to create it was done by using physical tests and machine learning techniques to teach the robot similar pathways to humans. "Having