Sheffield Robotics is home to an upper-body iCub 2.0 robot (with head, arms, hands, and torso). The robot is particularly suited to research into human cognition and development, and robot learning.

Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid ... a team from the University of Tokyo were able to make a robot smile by binding engineered skin tissue to the ...

For the first time in the world, the humanoid robot iCub, developed and built by researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology), enters a rehabilitation facility ...

The gel plugs the holes and tethers the skin to the robot. "By mimicking human skin-ligament structures and by using specially made V-shaped perforations in solid materials, we found a way to bind ...