They create a living skin for robots that is capable of ‘self-healing’, like human skin

by time news

Patricia Biosca

Madrid

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At the beginning of the Japanese animated film ‘Ghost in the Shell‘ (Mamoru Oshii, 1995) shows the entire process of creating a robotic body: from the organs to the bones, through the muscles and, finally, the skin, we can see how the protagonist is almost created from scratch. This iconic science fiction scene could become real precisely thanks to Japanese researchers, who have created a living skin that covers a robotic finger, adapting to its movements, repelling water and, in addition, being able to ‘heal itself’ autonomously, similar to what happens to our own skin. The conclusions have just been published in the magazine ‘Matter’.

Behind this ‘invention’ is Shoji Takeuchifrom the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo (Japan) and a pioneer in the field of biohybrid robotics, whose objective is to incorporate living tissue into artificial devices.

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