Scientists Unveil “Engineered Skin Tissue” For Robots

Today in extremely creepy robotics:

A group of Japanese researchers say they have figured out a way to bind “engineered skin tissue,” grown in a lab, to moveable solid objects, including the bodies and even faces of humanoid robots.

The team was led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi of the University of Tokyo, a pioneer in a field that sounds like something straight out of science fiction — “biohybrid robotics,” a study at the nexus of biology and mechanical engineering.

His lab, the Biohybrid Systems Laboratory, has already created, among other things, 3D-printed lab-grown meat, engineered skin that can heal, and a “shuffling robot” that “uses biological muscle to move and spin.”

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