Scientists have developed a robot finger with living skin -- a first of its kind, they claim. Beyond its realistic appearance, the finger is also water-repellent and self-healing.
“Our goal is to develop robots that are truly human-like.” University of Tokyo professor and lead author of the study, Shoji Takeuchi said in an email to Medscape Medical News.
“The silicone rubber covers that are commonly used today may look real from a distance or in photos or videos, but when you actually get up close, you realize that it is artificial,” Takeuchi explained.behave like, human skin to a certain extent. sheet onto it. Over the course of a week, these skin cells were able to regenerate and repair the injury.solution to shrink the dermis equivalent to form fit around an anchoring structure. Next, human keratinocyte cells were repeatedly painted on top of the living canvas. This process resulted in a multi-layer cell deposit similar to human skin.
In addition to adding skin-specific functions, “scaling up our current method to cover larger structures would also be a challenging next step,” Takeuchi stated.
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