Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel

Gsus4@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

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  • Gsus4@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    synthetic playmates…got it 👯

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks and feels real? I’m sorry but if i’m getting a cyberpunk upgrade it will be gold, chrome, or matte neon plastic. There are no other options ya gonk.

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• OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.

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  • Gsus4@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form…it needs too much babysitting to be called “self-healing”.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it does heal. Efficiently be damned. That’s not what you care about with mad science. Results are all that matter in mad science, good results or bad results you just have an insatiable desire to see what happens if

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  robot girlfriend duh

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• pentagrammar@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess there’s a market for… skin contact?

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• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.

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• weew@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter

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