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Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cells

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. SNL reference, not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You stupid, humorless fucks.

    1. Re:SNL reference, not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Damn, Slashdot is getting douchier and douchier.

  2. Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cell by digitalgimpus · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cell?

    Here in Jersey, we call them Midgets.