Friday, 8 July 2016

This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells

This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells

​​"This is the coolest thing you're going to see all year."​ This soft robotic stingray is made of rat heart muscle. Yeah, it's just as crazy as it sounds. "Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant, and a pinch of gold. That pretty much sums it up, except for the genetic engineering," says Kit Parker, the bio-engineer at Harvard who led the team that developed the strange robot.

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