{"id":140377,"date":"2022-06-10T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T01:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-craft-living-human-skin-for-robots"},"modified":"2022-06-10T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T01:03:31","slug":"scientists-craft-living-human-skin-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-craft-living-human-skin-for-robots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists craft living human skin for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z3wbQhciG7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today\u2019s robotic innovations. It\u2019s still a long way until human-like robots walk among us in our daily lives, but scientists from Japan are bringing us one step closer by crafting living human skin on robots. The method developed, presented June 9 in the journal <i>Matter<\/i>, not only gave a robotic finger skin-like texture, but also water-repellent and self-healing functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe finger looks slightly \u2018sweaty\u2019 straight out of the culture medium,\u201d says first author Shoji Takeuchi, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. \u201cSince the finger is driven by an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+motor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric motor<\/a>, it is also interesting to hear the clicking sounds of the motor in harmony with a finger that looks just like a real one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking \u201creal\u201d like a human is one of the top priorities for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/humanoid+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">humanoid robots<\/a> that are often tasked to interact with humans in healthcare and service industries. A human-like appearance can improve communication efficiency and evoke likability. While current silicone skin made for robots can mimic human appearance, it falls short when it comes to delicate textures like wrinkles and lacks skin-specific functions. Attempts at fabricating living skin sheets to cover robots have also had limited success, since it\u2019s challenging to conform them to dynamic objects with uneven surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today\u2019s robotic innovations. It\u2019s still a long way until human-like robots walk among us in our daily lives, but scientists from Japan are bringing us one step closer by crafting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140377","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}