{"id":191898,"date":"2024-06-26T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-technique-gives-robotic-faces-living-human-skin"},"modified":"2024-06-26T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T01:26:52","slug":"new-technique-gives-robotic-faces-living-human-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-technique-gives-robotic-faces-living-human-skin","title":{"rendered":"New technique gives robotic faces living human skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-gives-robotic-faces-living-human-skin.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots with human skin.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a breakthrough that isn\u2019t at all creepy, scientists have devised a method of anchoring living human skin to robots\u2019 faces. The technology could actually have some valuable applications, beyond making <i>Westworld<\/i>-like scenarios a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Prof. Shoji Takeuchi and colleagues at the University of Tokyo successfully <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/materials\/robotic-finger-living-skin-human-cells\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">covered a motorized robotic finger with a bioengineered skin<\/a> made from live human cells.<\/p>\n<p>It was hoped that this proof-of-concept exercise might pave the way not only for more lifelike android-type robots, but also for bots with self-healing, touch-sensitive coverings. The technology could additionally be used in the testing of cosmetics, and the training of plastic surgeons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots with human skin. In a breakthrough that isn\u2019t at all creepy, scientists have devised a method of anchoring living human skin to robots\u2019 faces. The technology could actually have some valuable applications, beyond making Westworld-like scenarios a reality. Two years ago, Prof. Shoji Takeuchi and colleagues at the University of Tokyo successfully covered a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191898","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}