Giving life to robotic skins

The skin of humanoid robots often lacks human tactility and the inherent self-repair capability of biological tissues. Recently, re-searchers have grown a living, self-healing skin on a robot finger by subsequent culturing of human dermal and epidermal cells. Here, we highlight the significance of this study alongside chal-lenges toward developing biohybrid robots equipped with sensate and adaptive living robotic skins.