3D printed hydrogel "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells

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Combining biological components, such as cells and tissues, with soft robotics can enable the fabrication of biological machines with the ability to sense, process signals, and produce force. Engineers at the University of Illinois are working on developing a Bio-Robot which can be produced easily by using 3D printing technology. They developed similar bio-bots few years back, but that time they used heart cells. Now they find a way to use muscle cells to gain more control. The frequency of the electric field determines the speed of this bio-bot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6SUbHn4yg4&list=PLK2ccNIJVPpC7ny_lpawhue_k3pfwqTQ2

Re: old news (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-26 14:36 (#YTJM)

Hey Viper. I miss your stuff, columns, and advice. It was all good food for thought and opinion.

As a perennially anonymous poster here I always thought the registered users, you and 1 or two others aside, were the weakest and most damaging part of this site. They contributed nothing and treated other people very poorly. The site was dealt a bad hand in the form of some very bad people. But thank you for trying.
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