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Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells

www.newscientist.com Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells

A technique for attaching a skin made from living human cells to a robotic framework could give robots the ability to emote and communicate better

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 prove useful for the cosmetics industry.

Edit to say: There's a video in the link 🌝

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A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot

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- So we're on our way to time travel.
  
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Thanks, I hate it.

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- It's the worst thing I've seen all day but it's not worse than the human brain organoid computer from a few weeks ago
  
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  These need not be mutually exclusive - just imagine if some mad man combined the two!
  
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  Jesus christ. They even have a picture of a mini brain pipelined into some chip.
  
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- It’s got enough love for the both of you
  
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This is not the lab-grown meat I was promised… the whole point is -not- having a face and emotions..

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- Its only emotion is joy. Even as you’re devouring it on a bun with ketchup.
  
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can it please be unmade now

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Oh, no thank you. You can keep it.

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- It sings lullabies
  
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  like anyone's going to sleep ever again after seeing it
  
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This seems like an idea spawned from an evil madman obsessed with both owning a clone army and eternal youth.

Human creativity can be so unsettling sometimes...

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I must scream

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Finally, a reason to get excited about sex bots!

This might be premature, but...

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- This might be premature
  
  You can get help with that problem these days.
  
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wait here imma get my flame thrower real quick

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It's like they spent a lot of time and effort thinking about, how many different ways can we make this more terrifying? I'm having trouble coming up with anything else they could do short of anything really blatant like attaching it to a mobile body with flailing meat grinder arms and giving it a blood curdling 100 decibel scream.

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- Teeth. They could give it teeth.
  
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Thank God. Now we just gotta put skin on a Boston Dynamics robot and let it nuke us

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Looks like a condom, don't stick your dick in it.

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Fucking hell...

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Can they make the mouth open? Asking for a friend.

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Please give it a 4 year lifespan.

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“Hey you! Scrambled eggs -face! Get over here!”

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" -Dr. Ian Malcolm

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