{"id":70837,"date":"2017-07-14T23:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts"},"modified":"2017-07-14T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:16:27","slug":"scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Building Humanoid Robots Using Skin Grafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists are eager to begin using humanoid robots as a means to test medical technology that could help us better understand how muscles and tendons work. <\/li>\n<li>By overlaying lab-engineered tissue onto mechanical robot skeletons, scientists would essentially be creating part-human, part-robot test subjects. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With all the advances being made in robotics in terms of capabilities, it was only a matter of time before researchers took it one step further, making robots look more human. That\u2019s what a pair of biomedical researchers at the University of Oxford are hoping to do, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-are-building-humanoid-robots-using-skin-grafts\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are eager to begin using humanoid robots as a means to test medical technology that could help us better understand how muscles and tendons work. By overlaying lab-engineered tissue onto mechanical robot skeletons, scientists would essentially be creating part-human, part-robot test subjects. With all the advances being made in robotics in terms of capabilities, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70837","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\/70837","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}