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This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel (techcrunch.com)
submitted 5 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7

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[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago (14 children)

...but...why? What is the point of living skin on machines? Even humans do everything they can to make their skin not look human :D

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

synthetic playmates..got it 👯

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