By repeatedly actuating their smiling robot face over time, they observed the formation of expression lines analogous to human wrinkles. The paper notes: "One significant next step in this ...

The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile. While it might look like the stuff of nightmares, this tiny robot covered in living ...

If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you? The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and ...

Scientists have made a robotic face smile with real human skin in a breakthrough ... lab-grown skin to mechanical faces, allowing the robots to make human-like facial expressions.

For this robot's skin face, there's a point -- beyond horrifying us -- to creating a smile in the tissue. By making a relatively flat robotic face seem to smile, then return to a neutral look ...

A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot, allowing machines to emote and communicate in a more life-like way, say researchers. Its wrinkles could ...