TECH - Days After Elon Musk Deemed University Of Tokyo's Idea 'Pointless' Scientists Develop Smiling Robot With Living Skin | Benzinga
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have successfully attached living skin tissue to robotic faces, enabling them to “smile.”
What Happened: The smiling robot, featured in a study published by Cell Reports Physical Science, is the culmination of a decade-long research by Shoji Takeuchi and his team on the fusion of biological and artificial machines, reported Reuters.
The scientists cultivated human skin cells in the form of a face and manipulated it into a broad smile using ligament-like attachments.
Living tissue, Takeuchi pointed out, has several benefits over metals and plastics, such as energy efficiency and self-repair capabilities. “By attaching these actuators and anchors, it became possible to manipulate living skin for the first time,” he added.
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