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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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding, oxygenating it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, on humans the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form and a whole immune system...it needs too much babysitting to be called "self-healing".

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

But it does heal. Efficiently be damned. That's not what you care about with mad science. Results are all that matter in mad science, good results or bad results you just have an insatiable desire to see what happens if

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