Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function. The group published its work in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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Graphic by Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Design Group@VetMed Tiny walking “bio-bots” are powered by muscle cells and controlled by an electric field.
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Graphic by Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Design Group@VetMed Tiny walking “bio-bots” are powered by muscle cells and controlled by an electric field.
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