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  • Robots made of cells blur the line between creature and machine

    Mar 31, 2022 10:30 am by Science News for StudentsIllinois in the News
    Engineers in Illinois have designed a “biohybrid” robot, illustrated here. Cells called motor neurons (green) trigger muscle tissue (red) to contract, closing the robot’s pinchers and allowing it to swim. GRAPHIC COURTESY MICHAEL VINCENT

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    • Engineers in Illinois have designed a “biohybrid” robot, illustrated here. Cells called motor neurons (green) trigger muscle tissue (red) to contract, closing the robot’s pinchers and allowing it to swim. GRAPHIC COURTESY MICHAEL VINCENT

    Science News for Students (March 31) Rashid Bashir, the dean of the Grainger College of Engineering: 'Imagine you can fabricate structures that can grow or heal themselves – do all the things that we find around us from (the) biological world.'