 The new lab-grown skin tissue adheres to underlying complex structures of any of the features it adheres to, much the way that skin ligaments do in human tissue. And because it's actual skin tissue grown in the lab, human expressions can be placed on robot faces, as well as self-healing for repairing damage. Developed by Professor Soji Takeuchi from the University of Tokyo, he said the skin tissue could also be useful in research into skin aging, cosmetics, surgical procedures, and plastic surgery,