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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So we're on our way to time travel.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These need not be mutually exclusive - just imagine if some mad man combined the two!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smh someone tell these scientists that you can just have sex to make a new person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hold up! Why am I just hearing about this now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What I’m hearing is you can just make a new person to have sex. Out of neural pods and living human skin robots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jesus christ. They even have a picture of a mini brain pipelined into some chip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s got enough love for the both of you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not the lab-grown meat I was promised… the whole point is -not- having a face and emotions..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Its only emotion is joy. Even as you’re devouring it on a bun with ketchup.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

can it please be unmade now

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, no thank you. You can keep it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

like anyone's going to sleep ever again after seeing it

[–] confusedpuppy 11 points 1 year ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally, a reason to get excited about sex bots!

This might be premature, but...

unzips

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This might be premature

You can get help with that problem these days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait here imma get my flame thrower real quick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Teeth. They could give it teeth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fucking hell...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank God. Now we just gotta put skin on a Boston Dynamics robot and let it nuke us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

β€œHey you! Scrambled eggs -face! Get over here!”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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