“Lab-Grown Living Skin Created by Scientists Hoping to Make More Human-Like Cyborgs”
June 27th, 2024It looks like they’re off to a great start. (Prepare yourself.)
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 27, 2024
Via: New York Post:
It’s the face of the future.
A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human-like cyborgs.
The skin was made in a lab at the University of Tokyo from a mixture of human skin cells grown on a collagen model and placed on top of a 3D-printed resin base, the New Scientist reported.
Scientists on the project — who published their findings in Cell Reports Physical Science on Tuesday — believe the living skin could be a key step in creating robots that heal and feel like humans.
Gumby meets ‘Silence of the Lambs’.