A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot, allowing machines to emote and communicate in a more life-like way, say researchers. Its wrinkles could ...

By Emily Schmall Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask ... the total robot stock includes so ...

The face's novel anchors—holes filled with gel—allow the skin to stretch into a smile without damaging itself. Takeuchi et al., Cell Reports Physical Science, 2024, CC-BY-ND Using living skin ...

As a proof of concept, the team engineered a small robotic face capable of smiling, covered entirely with a layer of pink living tissue. The researchers note that using living skin tissue as a ...