{"id":140348,"date":"2022-06-09T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-cover-robotic-finger-with-living-skin-made-from-human-cells"},"modified":"2022-06-09T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:23:20","slug":"scientists-cover-robotic-finger-with-living-skin-made-from-human-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-cover-robotic-finger-with-living-skin-made-from-human-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists cover robotic finger with living skin made from human cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-cover-robotic-finger-with-living-skin-made-from-human-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been hearing a lot about <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/electronic-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">synthetic skins<\/a> designed for robotic hands, which would give the devices more human-like qualities. Well, scientists in Japan have gone a step further, by covering a robotic finger in a self-healing skin made from live human cells.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Prof. Shoji Takeuchi, a team at the University of Tokyo started by building an articulated motor-driven robotic finger, capable of bending and straightening like its human counterpart. That finger was then submerged in a cylinder filled with a solution made up of collagen and human dermal fibroblast cells \u2013 these are the main components of our skin\u2019s connective tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its natural properties, that solution shrank and conformed to the contours of the finger, forming a seamless hydrogel coating. Next, the scientists added a layer of human epidermal keratinocyte cells, which constitute 90 percent of our epidermis (the outermost layer of skin). These formed a moisture-retaining\/water-resistant barrier on top of the gel, and gave the finger a more natural texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing a lot about synthetic skins designed for robotic hands, which would give the devices more human-like qualities. Well, scientists in Japan have gone a step further, by covering a robotic finger in a self-healing skin made from live human cells. Led by Prof. Shoji Takeuchi, a team at the University of Tokyo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}