Japanese Scientists Put Living, Moving Skin on Robotic Face
Scientists in Japan hope attaching living, stretchable lab-grown skin to robotic faces will make cosmetic and drug testing safer.
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00:00In a breakthrough straight out of 80s science fiction movie The Terminator,
00:05researchers in Japan have attached living skin to a robot face and can even make it smile.
00:11The skin has been grown in a lab and can be manipulated with attachments that work like ligaments.
00:17The team says the results can be unsettling, but that it's an important step in making more lifelike robots.
00:23They say the breakthrough has applications for cosmetics and medicine.
00:27To make results even more accurate and safe, the scientists hope to next add a circulatory system and nerves.