Assemble "living" robots with cells
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Last Update: 2020-05-31
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Researchers at the University of Vermont first ran an evolutionary algorithm on a supercomputer that simulated an organism design based on the laws of biophysicsLater, researchers at Tufts University in the United States extracted stem cells from embryos of African claws and growd them into skin cells or cardiomyocytes, split them into individual cells, and assembled them under a microscope into structures similar to the designstudies have shown that previously randomly contracted cardiomyocytes move forward in an orderly and autonomous manner and move in a watery environment for days or weeksFurther experiments showed that the "living" robots were also able to move around in a circle, pushing the ball to the centerThe researchers cut the robots apart, and they can stitch them up on their own to continue working, something traditional robots can't doThe "live" robot sits promising to search for radioactive contamination or to remove atherosclerosis plaques from arteries, the researchers said.
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