This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel
This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel | TechCrunch
Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7
Me: “Reading the technology community will be safe before bed”
OP: “Nah.”
Fuck this I read it first thing in the morning
JFC just give it an LCD screen head that makes emojis and knock this uncanny valley shit off. I'd rather have Codsworth or R2D2 than this homunculus or some latex-faced simulacrum.
R2D2
I think prince Xizor had a fuckable bodyguard droid in the EU. But in general employing living beings was cheaper.
What about Kevin Spacey in a robot on the moon?
I'd be beside myself.
You say thSt until you can print off Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former and stick your dick in it.
The least they can do is put googly eyes on it. C'mon, bare minimum effort lol.
This is both really cool, and really unsettling. I wonder if this research might help in the other direction as well, such as with transplants and grafts
That was my first thought too; would this improve treatment for serious burn victims and such. Sounds like what they've made is better overall for sticking to applied surfaces and moving without tearing. Heck, maybe this could even lead to prosthetics that allow physical sensation
This was mentioned in the Discussion part of their paper:
The activity of facial muscles involved in forming expressions such as smiles is closely linked to the development of wrinkles. One significant next step in this research is to leverage this model to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying wrinkle formation. Moreover, applying this knowledge to recreate such expressions on a chip could find applications in the cosmetics industry and the orthopedic surgery industry. Additionally, this study performed actuation on a dermis equivalent by controlling mechanical actuators positioned beneath the dermis equivalent. Substituting this mechanical actuator with cultured muscle tissue presents an intriguing prospect in the realization of a higher degree of biomimetics. Examining the correlation between facial muscle contractions and resulting facial expression can offer insights into the physiological aspects of emotion, leading to new exploration in the treatment of diseases, such as facial paralysis surgery.
Very cool, thank you!
...but...why? What is the point of living skin on machines? Even humans do everything they can to make their skin not look human :D
So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
synthetic playmates..got it 👯
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.
It would be cool if somebody missing an arm could get a cybernetic replacement that looks and feels real.
That's the only situation I can imagine where maintaining a living skin is worth the cost. I can't even keep plants alive.
From the article
Cultured skin, as they put it, can heal itself, carry biological sensors like our own to provide sensitive touch, and could also have benefits in medical or human interaction contexts.
Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.
I guess there's a market for... skin contact?
So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.
robot girlfriend duh
So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter
And what does that skin feed off of?
Do you really want to know? There are some things that the human mind is not meant to contemplate.
The human mind is a curious mind.
If that skin is just copy/pasted without nourishment it'll rotten away, decaying in a sea of pus and putrid, gangrenic tissue, festering away as maggots feast on it.
So if these scientists are half-serious about their grants then they should consider a way to feed the skin.
Sorry, I'm too stupid to heed warnings
Is the one on the left meant to look like zuck?
Don’t judge. He has a lot of layers to put on before he goes out in public.
I can't wait for them to make a vagina next.
... kill me ...
Looks like mark zuckerburg
Life imitates art
They had a very very similar thing in bicentennial man
Wake up babe, new SCP just dropped.
The article made that joke too, and... Yeah it's spot on.
SCP? Sane Clown Posse?
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enjoy!
Sexy Clown Pose
Yep! It's just like Insane Clown Posse, but with therapy.
It's horror fanfiction in a shared universe.
It's just as mediocre and uneven as you might expect from that description, but the Internet acts like it's amazing as a joke or something I guess? Like the Star Wars prequels.
Imagine waking up and seeing a robot with that face standing above you.