Robots may be on the way to looking more human-like sooner than you think. Researchers in Japan have announced that they ...

Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid robot in an effort to give machines a more lifelike appearance. In a groundbreaking procedure, a team from the ...

Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin to robot faces.

Scientists from Japan have brought us one step closer to human-like robots by crafting living human skin on robots which gave their fingers skin-like texture, as well as water-repellent and self ...

Japanese scientists have found a way ... The gel plugs the holes and tethers the skin to the robot. "By mimicking human skin-ligament structures and by using specially made V-shaped perforations ...

The robot was without any kind of skin ... The human features of two eyes and arms also help improve its operability. Man-Machine Synergy Effectors is financially backed by a West Japan Railway ...

Japan’s first robot bartender has ... At about 9 million yen ($82,000), the robot cost as much as employing a human bartender for three years.