A robot gets a face of living ‘skin’ that allows it to smile

An image released by University of Tokyo researchers shows a robot smiling, with the help of mechanical actuators beneath a flexible layer of living skin.

If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?

(Image credit: Takeuchi et al. CC-BY-ND
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