Science robots

Can we get a ‘Hell, no!’ for this robot with living human skin? – 19 ‘No, thank you’s

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 27th, 2024

Harvard Bioengineering PhD student Michio Kawai may have missed his true calling – making props for horror films – if his recent robotics innovation is anything to go by.

He and his team have devised a way to allow robots to emote more effectively, presumably so we can tell they’re gloating when they take over the world, by attaching living human skin cells to the robots’ resin base.

Here’s how that looks.

Thanks, Michio. We hate it, and it looks like we aren’t alone.

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