Biology meets microchips to make tiny robots

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Biology meets microchips to make tiny robots

Postby Class316 on Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:53 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Rat cells grown onto microscopic silicon chips worked as tiny robots, perhaps a first step towards a self-assembling device, researchers working in the United States reported on Sunday.

They described a new method for attaching living cells to silicon chips. They then and got the combined entities to move like tiny, primitive legs.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/01/18/microbots.reut/index.html
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