A Robotic stingray powered by light-activated muscle cells now exists
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[url]http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/robotic-stingray-powered-light-activated-muscle-cells[/url]
[url]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160707151011.htm[/url]
[url]https://www.sciencenews.org/article/light-activated-heart-cells-help-guide-robotic-stingray[/url]
[quote]Kevin Kit Parker wants to build a human heart. His young daughter loves the New England Aquarium in Boston. In this Science report, father’s and daughter’s obsessions have combined in an unlikely creation: a nickel-sized artificial stingray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by rat heart muscle cells.
Incorporating advances in engineering, cell culture, genetics, and biomechanics, the “living” robot is “clearly a technical tour de force,” says Adam Summers, an integrative biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle. And some think that by melding cells and artificial materials into a pulsating structure, the device brings Parker’s dream of engineering a human heart a step closer. “One can imagine that one day we can use this technology to rebuild parts of the human body,” says Kedi Xu, a neural engineer at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.[/quote]
Damn, this is cool.
video/article in the first source are awesome
[editline]7th July 2016[/editline]
title isn't kidding at all, it actually undersells it
they manipulated rat heart cells to throb to light and printed them into a shape that would pulse correctly in conjunction with an artificial skeleton to make a laser-guided stingray
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they manipulated rat heart cells to throb to light and printed them into a shape that would pulse correctly in conjunction with an artificial skeleton to make a laser-guided stingray[/QUOTE]
It feels like we're rapidly nearing "the future", whatever that is. 20-30 years from now and I fully expect things like regrowing organs or even cloning hair follicles for reversing balding to be common place. Maybe a tad optimistic, but we're close, we just have to be.
Y'know im starting to think reality really wants to hit that really high bar that Human Revolution set for technological advancement predictions. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if by 2027 in the real world we really did have fully functioning artificial limbs that could be operated and move just like the original version.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;50670156]Y'know im starting to think reality really wants to hit that really high bar that Human Revolution set for technological advancement predictions. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if by 2027 in the real world we really did have fully functioning artificial limbs that could be operated and move just like the original version.[/QUOTE]
Not quite as advanced but we do have robot arms already.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUPnnROxvY[/media]
[QUOTE=helifreak;50670423]Not quite as advanced but we do have robot arms already.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUPnnROxvY[/media][/QUOTE]
I know, thats why im confident we'll get there.
The current issues with prosthetics, if im not mistaken, relate to how they function and how the information from the brain gets to the arm, and a lack of proper feedback.
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The current issues with prosthetics, if im not mistaken, relate to how they function and how the information from the brain gets to the arm, and a lack of proper feedback.[/QUOTE]
Yes, in that order
It's an...artificial life form? This is literally something out of SciFi.
Kinda reminds me of this weird thing from awhile back where someone said they'd built modular artificial life forms out electronics and parts of chickens; one could 'build' an organism out of these parts, mixing and matching them to create different shaped creatures that would basically be alive until you switched them off. Turned out it was all some kind of fictional ARG thing.
[video=youtube;tfoVOGMz054]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfoVOGMz054[/video]
[QUOTE=Ryu-Gi;50672324]It's an...artificial life form? This is literally something out of SciFi.
Kinda reminds me of this weird thing from awhile back where someone said they'd built modular artificial life forms out electronics and parts of chickens; one could 'build' an organism out of these parts, mixing and matching them to create different shaped creatures that would basically be alive until you switched them off. Turned out it was all some kind of fictional ARG thing.
[video=youtube;tfoVOGMz054]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfoVOGMz054[/video][/QUOTE]
That's creepy as fuck.
Bio robots with conductive gold skeletons damn.
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[QUOTE=shad0w440;50680035]Bio robots with conductive gold skeletons damn.
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Just imagine what it would be like if we actually gave it a brain, of sorts.
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;50680164]Just imagine what it would be like if we actually gave it a brain, of sorts.[/QUOTE]
We could make gold nanotubes carry information in a synthetic brain simulating neuron pathways.
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