Scientists create a face for robots out of ‘cultured human cells’ and it’s something that I wish I could unsee now

We all know that science fiction films are literally just that—fiction. After all, it’s not as if scientists are actively trying to create something that would look at home in a movie that involves cyborgs from the future blending in with us humans. Right? Well, when a team of bioengineers have made a mask out of living human skin cells, to be worn by robots that can be made to ‘smile’, what else am I supposed to think?

Few stories on the endeavours of scientists have elicited such a unanimous and unequivocal response from the PC Gamer hardware team as this one. New Scientist (via Hot Hardware) has reported on the work of a team of bioengineers at Harvard University, in which they’ve managed to create a “cultured mix of human skin cells grown in a collagen scaffold and placed on top of a 3D-printed resin base.”