Cyborg ray made of rat cells is driven by light

• Autores: Sandrine Ceurstemont
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3082, 2016, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People have created a monster. Or at least a coin-sized cyborg stingray made from rat heart cells that can be controlled underwater using light. Designed by Kevin Kit Parker from Harvard University's Wyss Institute and his team, the 16-millimeter-long soft robot has a gold skeleton overlaid with a flexible polymer. Its muscles are made up of about 200,000 rat heart cells laid down in layers.