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[MastaKiiLA]

The madlads did it!

Scientists grew living human skin around a robotic finger

In the hopes of one day building super realistic cyborgs, researchers built a robotic finger that wears living human skin.

www.sciencenews.org

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic finger that, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin, is covered in living human skin. The goal is to someday build robots that look like real people — albeit for more altruistic applications.

He means sexbots. It's Tokyo. It'll totally be sexbots first, and then cyborg policewomen next.

To cover the finger in skin, Takeuchi and colleagues submerged the robotic digit in a blend of collagen and human skin cells called dermal fibroblasts. The mixture settled into a base layer of skin, or dermis, covering the finger. The team then poured a liquid containing human keratinocyte cells onto the finger, which formed an outer skin layer, or epidermis. After two weeks, skin covering the finger measured a few millimeters thick — comparable to the thickness of human skin.

The lab-made skin was strong and stretchy enough to withstand the robotic finger bending. It could also heal itself: When researchers made a small cut on the robotic finger and covered it with a collagen bandage, the skin’s fibroblast cells merged the bandage with the rest of the skin within a week.

Don't look like much, until you realize that Skynet's plan is to end human reproduction by finding your girl's g-spot.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Artoris]

That's like taking off a condom then

 

[IDKFA]

That's like taking off a condom then

You take off a condom with a knife?!

 

[ClanOfNone]

Eh, wake me up when I can plant my brain in a badass cyborg body.

 

[Kev Kev]

 

[Torrent of Pork]

I'm more interested in growing skin grafts for burn victims and other injuries.

 

[Artoris]

You take off a condom with a knife?!

I am sure it has happened

 

[Patrick S.]

Fun fact: that scene isn't in the German TV version of T2.

 

[Quasicat]

Fun fact: that scene isn't in the German TV version of T2.

Based on the story, how does Dyson accept that this was his creation? Especially since the original T800’s arm is in the vault.

 

[Rest]

Fun fact: that scene isn't in the German TV version of T2.

It's partly censored on most American TV versions of the movie as well.

 

[The Pleasure]

Androids with human skin tissue?

 

[dr_octagon]

Now we need a learning compoota with a nooral net processor.

Edit: It's already started attacking humans