Lab grown skin gives robots the ability to smile

A living skin developed in a laboratory is attached to the face of a humanoid robot, enabling it to smile and even give human-like expressions! This is not a movie scene from a sci-fi movie, but a reality.Scientists from the University of Tokyo, Japan, have created a human-like fleshy skin in a laboratory, enabling a humanoid robot to smile and give expressions.

- GNS News Agency, May 2

They have found a way to bind the engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of human-cid robots. The research by Japanese engineers, published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports Physical Sciences (July 2024), means that in the near future, whenever a humanoid robot gets injured, the skin can self-heal, will have sensing abilities and increasingly will look ‘life-like’ and not like a life-less robot.