Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have developed a new type of responsive “ synthetic skin .” The skin is made from a single hydrogel that is capable of ...

Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.

Researchers from Tokyo created artificial self-healing human skin for robots to give them a more human-like appearance.

Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique that could pave the way for lifelike robots.

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.

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.

Robotic researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have discovered a new way to bind skin tissue to mechanical skeletons, allowing the skin to move with the robot.

A pink blob with beady eyes is gaining widespread attention online – because this newly-developed robot has what researchers at the University of Tokyo call "living skin." ...

Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin to robot faces.… ...

Even after sizable industry advances, humanoid robots remain firmly within the uncanny valley. And although a Japanese team’s new lab-engineered skin may not lessen a bot’s creepiness, it may ...

Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique that could pave the way for lifelike robots.