Original publication: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(24)00335-7
Wake up babe, new SCP just dropped.
SCP? Sane Clown Posse?
Sexy Clown Pose
Yep! It’s just like Insane Clown Posse, but with therapy.
Just in case you don’t know and are one of the lucky 10000 today:
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series
enjoy!
It’s horror fanfiction in a shared universe.
It’s just as mediocre and uneven as you might expect from that description, but the Internet acts like it’s amazing as a joke or something I guess? Like the Star Wars prequels.
Some of them are really good, but yeah some are just okay.
‘Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.’
And for the rest of my days, upon needing a sharp object, “I require a cutting tool.”
Glorious.
Me: “Reading the technology community will be safe before bed”
OP: “Nah.”
The least they can do is put googly eyes on it. C’mon, bare minimum effort lol.
This is both really cool, and really unsettling. I wonder if this research might help in the other direction as well, such as with transplants and grafts
That was my first thought too; would this improve treatment for serious burn victims and such. Sounds like what they’ve made is better overall for sticking to applied surfaces and moving without tearing. Heck, maybe this could even lead to prosthetics that allow physical sensation
… 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.
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?
I’d be beside myself.
You say thSt until you can print off Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former and stick your dick in it.
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.
I can’t wait for them to make a vagina next.
They had a very very similar thing in bicentennial man
…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.
So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
From the article
Cultured skin, as they put it, can heal itself, carry biological sensors like our own to provide sensitive touch, and could also have benefits in medical or human interaction contexts.
Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.
The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding, oxygenating it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, on humans the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form and a whole immune system…it needs too much babysitting to be called “self-healing”.
But it does heal. Efficiently be damned. That’s not what you care about with mad science. Results are all that matter in mad science, good results or bad results you just have an insatiable desire to see what happens if
It would be cool if somebody missing an arm could get a cybernetic replacement that looks and feels real.
That’s the only situation I can imagine where maintaining a living skin is worth the cost. I can’t even keep plants alive.
Looks and feels real? I’m sorry but if i’m getting a cyberpunk upgrade it will be gold, chrome, or matte neon plastic. There are no other options ya gonk.
