Sunday 18 November 2012

Rat's heart cells help create bio-robots. By: Soon Qi Wei


Recently, a group of USA scientists managed to implant heart cells of a rat into a small robot. The small robot, with a long leg and a short stump, would move every time the heart cell beats. Although the scientists do not have full grasp of the control and movements of these bio-bots, they say that if this project is successful, these bio-bots would be very useful in the scientific field. They could be used in many different fields like medicine and sensors. So far, the bio-bots have managed to move in a straight distance of 4mm per second.Personally, I believe that this is a huge scientific breakthrough as such if this project works out, robots that would could help carry things or detect unknown items in the ground might be created, making life much easier for us. Furthermore, these new inventions could help society greatly and in my opinion, these should be a technology that is worth researching. To read the full article, click here!

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