Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7
Me: “Reading the technology community will be safe before bed”
OP: “Nah.”
JFC just give it an LCD screen head that makes emojis and knock this uncanny valley shit off. I’d rather have Codsworth or R2D2 than this homunculus or some latex-faced simulacrum.
What about Kevin Spacey in a robot on the moon?
You say thSt until you can print off Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former and stick your dick in it.
…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
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.
I guess there’s a market for… skin contact?
So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.
The least they can do is put googly eyes on it. C’mon, bare minimum effort lol.
And what does that skin feed off of?
Do you really want to know? There are some things that the human mind is not meant to contemplate.
The human mind is a curious mind.
If that skin is just copy/pasted without nourishment it’ll rotten away, decaying in a sea of pus and putrid, gangrenic tissue, festering away as maggots feast on it.
So if these scientists are half-serious about their grants then they should consider a way to feed the skin.
I was more suggesting that it might be a bit eldritch, but sometimes humor doesn’t come across quite right/
The linked paper is focused on studying the ‘perforation-type anchor’ they use to hold the tissue to the mold as it grows, rather than keeping it alive afterwards. During growth the tissue and mold were submerged, or partially submerged, in a suitable medium to keep the cells healthy, and it was only when the resulting models were tested that they were removed (although one test did seem to involve letting it dry out to see if the anchors held). Growing the various layers of cells seems to be a solved problem, and I suspect that includes keeping them supplied with nutrients and such, so the authors aren’t examining that. What’s not solved is how to keep the tissue attached to a robot, which is what the authors were studying.
Sorry, I’m too stupid to heed warnings
If the Internet has taught me anything… I know someone out there took one look and said 'imma fuck this thing. ’
Rule 37?
Rule
37?34Right! There’s even a Stross about it.
34 is “there is porn of everything, no exceptions”.
That’s a boring cover of a description.
If it exists, there is porn of it
… kill me …
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.
Looks like mark zuckerburg
They had a very very similar thing in bicentennial man
