Scientists Create Living Human Skin for Biohybrid Robots

Scientists from Japan have created living human skin that will help in the creation of biohybrid robots, which are made of both living and artificial materials. The method was presented on June 9 in the journal Matter. The team was able to give a robotic finger a skin-like texture, as well as water-repellent and self-healing functions. Shoji Takeuchi is a professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. "The finger looks slightly'sweaty' straight out of the culture medium," Takeuchi says.