Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile.

Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile - The New York Times

Scientists Want to Put Living Skin on Robot Faces Don't ask why, but scientists in Japan have devised a way to give robots human-like faces, complete with real, living skin. Thanks to an experimental strategy that allowed the researchers to reproduce human tissue structures, they can attach slippery, mask-like faces to robots' facades—whether we want them to or not. In a study published Monday in Cell Reports Physical Science…