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Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cells

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 17, 2005 @06:37AM from the robots-doing-laps dept.

voma writes "Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles. The devices were formed by "growing" rat cells on microscopic silicon chips, the researchers report in the journal Nature Materials. Less than a millimetre long, the miniscule robots can move themselves without any external source of power. Muscles like these could be used in a host of microscopic devices - even to drive miniature electrical generators to power computer chips."

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FP! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 06:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First Post!

Life is like an ISP tech support gig...
I, for one... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 06:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...welcome our new Ninja-Rat overlords!

(Splinter taught them to be ninja teeeens!)
subject? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 06:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Shouldn't this be under "Robotics" ?
www.vrogy.com BTW
Re:no external source of power? by dsginter · 2005-01-17 06:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They're fuelled by alcohol.

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Re:Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cell by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 07:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Here in NY, we call those in Jersey spamming fuckwads who can cram their free mini-mac offers straight up their assholes!