Roboticists from the University of Tokyo have taken a tiny step toward creating the Terminator. They’ve built an articulated robot finger that’s seamlessly covered in living human skin. There are many ...

The Terminator may be one step closer to reality. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic finger that, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin, is covered in ...

From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today's robotic innovations. It's ...

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and “slightly sweaty” robotic finger, covered in a pink layer of living skin, grown from human skin cells. The rather phallic looking result ...

If you shook hands with a robot today, it would feel no different to grabbing a cold hunk of metal. But one day, it may not be much different from shaking hands with a fellow human. Japanese ...

The skin is water-resistant, has self-healing properties, and can move and stretch with the movement of the robotic body parts. Scientists may have moved us one step closer to creating truly life-like ...