Robot Biomimetic

David Hanson is a doctoral student working in the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas His area of research investigates facial expression in robots using recent breakthroughs in elastomer material sciences to enact a sizable range of natural humanlike facial expressions. This branch of robotics will rise in relevance as humans and robots begin to have more face-to-face encounters in the coming years.
His site :
http://iiae.utdallas.edu/projects/hanson.html