Bio-robot crawler made with sea slug muscles

Recently, researchers from a number of universities managed to merge engineered rat heart cells and a gold skeleton to create a stingray robot that could be steered left or right. In a similar vein, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have created a crawling robot from sea slug muscles attached to a 3D-printed body, with aims of one day sending swarms of biohybrid robots on sea search missions.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Bio-robot crawler made with sea slug muscles

Recently, researchers from a number of universities managed to merge engineered rat heart cells and a gold skeleton to create a stingray robot that could be steered left or right. In a similar vein, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have created a crawling robot from sea slug muscles attached to a 3D-printed body, with aims of one day sending swarms of biohybrid robots on sea search missions.

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OK. But the stingray had a serious purpose, as a development research platform for constructing artificial hearts that won’t be rejected by the body’s immune system.

mollwollfumble said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Bio-robot crawler made with sea slug muscles

Recently, researchers from a number of universities managed to merge engineered rat heart cells and a gold skeleton to create a stingray robot that could be steered left or right. In a similar vein, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have created a crawling robot from sea slug muscles attached to a 3D-printed body, with aims of one day sending swarms of biohybrid robots on sea search missions.

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OK. But the stingray had a serious purpose, as a development research platform for constructing artificial hearts that won’t be rejected by the body’s immune system.

the Bio-robot crawlers purpose will be sending swarms of them into bodies of water to conduct searches, whether that’s looking for the source of a toxic leak in a pond or a plane’s black box at the bottom of the ocean.

so they say