Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7
Wake up babe, new SCP just dropped.
The article made that joke too, and… Yeah it’s spot on.
SCP? Sane Clown Posse?
Just in case you don’t know and are one of the lucky 10000 today:
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series
enjoy!
Yep! It’s just like Insane Clown Posse, but with therapy.
It’s horror fanfiction in a shared universe.
It’s just as mediocre and uneven as you might expect from that description, but the Internet acts like it’s amazing as a joke or something I guess? Like the Star Wars prequels.
Some of them are really good, but yeah some are just okay.
Imagine waking up and seeing a robot with that face standing above you.
‘Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.’
And for the rest of my days, upon needing a sharp object, “I require a cutting tool.”
Glorious.
Me: “Reading the technology community will be safe before bed”
OP: “Nah.”
Fuck this I read it first thing in the morning
The least they can do is put googly eyes on it. C’mon, bare minimum effort lol.
This is both really cool, and really unsettling. I wonder if this research might help in the other direction as well, such as with transplants and grafts
That was my first thought too; would this improve treatment for serious burn victims and such. Sounds like what they’ve made is better overall for sticking to applied surfaces and moving without tearing. Heck, maybe this could even lead to prosthetics that allow physical sensation
This was mentioned in the Discussion part of their paper:
The activity of facial muscles involved in forming expressions such as smiles is closely linked to the development of wrinkles. One significant next step in this research is to leverage this model to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying wrinkle formation. Moreover, applying this knowledge to recreate such expressions on a chip could find applications in the cosmetics industry and the orthopedic surgery industry. Additionally, this study performed actuation on a dermis equivalent by controlling mechanical actuators positioned beneath the dermis equivalent. Substituting this mechanical actuator with cultured muscle tissue presents an intriguing prospect in the realization of a higher degree of biomimetics. Examining the correlation between facial muscle contractions and resulting facial expression can offer insights into the physiological aspects of emotion, leading to new exploration in the treatment of diseases, such as facial paralysis surgery.
Very cool, thank you!
…but…why? What is the point of living skin on machines? Even humans do everything they can to make their skin not look human :D
So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
synthetic playmates…got it 👯
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.
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.
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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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.
Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.
The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding, oxygenating it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, on humans the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form and a whole immune system…it needs too much babysitting to be called “self-healing”.
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
robot girlfriend duh
I guess there’s a market for… skin contact?
So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.
So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter
If the Internet has taught me anything… I know someone out there took one look and said 'imma fuck this thing. ’
Is the one on the left meant to look like zuck?
Don’t judge. He has a lot of layers to put on before he goes out in public.
I can’t wait for them to make a vagina next.
… kill me …
Looks like mark zuckerburg
Life imitates art
They had a very very similar thing in bicentennial man
