In the fictional work Ghost in The Shell by Masamune Shirow, androids in the future are hard to distinguish from humans. The same technology also appears in other works of fiction such as Blade Runner and Alien. But fiction is now getting closer to reality after the success of researchers from the University of Tokyo producing robots with living human skin.
A team from the University of Tokyo produced a finger for a robot. The outer part of this finger is then coated with living skin that grows from real human skin cells. When the robot’s fingers are flexed, this lab -made skin moves like skin on a real human finger. If this skin is torn, a layer of collagen can be used to patch it up like living skin.
But robots with human skin are still not ready to become a reality because these lab -made skin need a constant supply of nutrients to survive. Scientists from the University of Nokia will now try to give it nails, nerves and roma hair follicles so that it can resemble real human skin.
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