While child-sized humanoid robots like the Unitree R1 have come down in price, not everybody has a spare $6,000 to throw ...

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 University ...

Hugging Face's Cadene came to the company by way of Tesla. For context on the pricing, Tesla's Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot (while admittedly much more advanced, at least in theory) is expected to ...

Pictured, Lance Henriksen as Bishop in 'Aliens' (1986) Robots with skin on their face boast self-healing abilities, embedded sensing capabilities and an 'increasingly lifelike appearance'.

Robot face with lab-grown living skin created by scientists hoping to make more human-like cyborgs By Olivia Land Published June 25, 2024, 3:56 p.m. ET ...

Actuators connected to the base allowed the face to move, with the living skin flexing. The researchers also covered a static 3D-printed head shape with the engineered skin.

Delangue says that Hugging Face believes something similar is needed in robotics. “Hopefully open source can unleash a wide and diverse range of [new robot] capabilities,” he says.