Jianzhong Xi, Jacob Schmidt and Carlo Montemagno of the University of California Los Angeles have grown rat cells onto microscopic silicon chips. They then got it walk like primitive legs. Their technique is thought to be a first step in creating self assembling robots.
Image that: self-assembling robots?
The full CNN.com report is here.
3 comments:
why am i thinking of a self-writing dissertation?
aren't we 'biological' dissertation-writing 'robots'? hehehe
sometimes after talking to my committee, i feel like that hehehe
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