Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid robot in an effort to give machines a more lifelike appearance. In a groundbreaking procedure, a team from the University ...

In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence have unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin ...

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, ...

A team of scientists have grown a smiling face from living human skin and placed it over a robot in what appears to be the first step in creating a real-life T-1000 from Terminator. A group of ...

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen’s humanoid robot, Reachy ...

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 also ...