Someday, physically touching our electronic devices will be as archaic as standing up from the recliner to change the channel. Voice recognition systems and home assistants can turn on lights, pull up podcasts and order paper towels on command. Cameras in video game systems and televisions can do our bidding with a gesture.

And to the list of hands-free methods of component control, we can add electronic skin.

E-skins have been garnering a lot of attention from software and material en