Awesome:

“Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The devices were formed by ‘growing’ rat cells on microscopic silicon chips, the researchers report in the journal Nature Materials.”

Professor Montemagno says muscles like these could be used in a host of microscopic devices – even to drive miniature electrical generators to power computer chips.

via Rich

  2 Responses to “Very tiny robots.”

  1. How long before I can get a vat-grown knee replacement, do you think?

  2. that’s really the question, isn’t it? I’d bet it’ll be sometime in the next couple of decades, which is pretty freeking soon, all things considered…

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