By Emily Schmall Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask ... closer to sci-fi fantasy.

It’s the face of the future. A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human ...

For now, the robot can't feel its face, putting it in a category pioneered by Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd. Not long ago, many of us smiled when technology managed to put the singer's words ...

They also created a flat layer of skin that could be warped into a smiling face. The results suggest that there remains a long way to go before “acted like a robot” becomes a compliment.

Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid robot in an effort to give machines a more ...

So instead, the team used a special collagen gel for adhesion and made special perforations in their robot face, helping the layer of lab-grown skin take hold. By carefully engineering small ...

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