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Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.
Baths of human skin cells might sound like something straight out of a horror movie. But in reality, having a vat of skin at the ready allowed researchers to give a mechanical finger a layered covering that looks and acts much like human skin.  

“Our goal is to develop robots that are truly human-like.” Shoji Takeuchi, a study coauthor and engineer at The University of Tokyo, tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). On that front, the team succeeded, researchers in the field say. “This is very interesting work and an important step forward,” Ritu Raman, an MIT engineer not involved in the work, tells Science News.
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Robots could soon look human, with living skin and hair.
Researchers in Tokyo have grown human-like, living skin on a robotic finger, with plans to make the skin self-sustaining by adding veins, and later hair, nails and sweat glands.
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The Japanese are going the skin and building the Robot, while Google has created the AI in enhabit the robots human like body.