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Living robots

Living robots MATERIAL WITNESS news & views he original ‘robots’, described The researchers cultured these in the 1921 play R.U.R. by the cell types separately and then pooled TCzech writer Karel Čapek (the them in the desired numbers so that word is Czech for ‘labourer’) were they could aggregate into a single not made from steel and controlled mass. The specific arrangement by electronics, but were fleshy and of cells was decided by using an autonomous. Čapek’s manufacturing evolutionary algorithm in simulations process, in which organs and other that seek the geometries that parts were made from vats of flesh- performed best at the target task. It like dough and assembled into bodies, was then engineered by hand with a Philip Ball took inspiration from the emerging combination of microsurgery forceps technology of in vivo tissue culture. to manipulate cells and a fine cautery It blurred the boundaries between electrode to remove them at certain engineering and biotechnology in locations. The resulting cellular are governed by the signals received a way that seemed far beyond the structures are necessarily rather crude from surrounding cells, and some technologies of the time. approximations of the original design, are themselves mobile in developing The results http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Living robots

Ball, Philip
Nature Materials , Volume 19 (3) – Mar 25, 2020
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Living robots

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MATERIAL WITNESS news & views he original ‘robots’, described The researchers cultured these in the 1921 play R.U.R. by the cell types separately and then pooled TCzech writer Karel Čapek (the them in the desired numbers so that word is Czech for ‘labourer’) were they could aggregate into a single not made from steel and controlled mass. The specific arrangement by electronics, but were fleshy and of cells was decided by using an autonomous. Čapek’s...
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Springer Journals
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1476-1122
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Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views he original ‘robots’, described The researchers cultured these in the 1921 play R.U.R. by the cell types separately and then pooled TCzech writer Karel Čapek (the them in the desired numbers so that word is Czech for ‘labourer’) were they could aggregate into a single not made from steel and controlled mass. The specific arrangement by electronics, but were fleshy and of cells was decided by using an autonomous. Čapek’s manufacturing evolutionary algorithm in simulations process, in which organs and other that seek the geometries that parts were made from vats of flesh- performed best at the target task. It like dough and assembled into bodies, was then engineered by hand with a Philip Ball took inspiration from the emerging combination of microsurgery forceps technology of in vivo tissue culture. to manipulate cells and a fine cautery It blurred the boundaries between electrode to remove them at certain engineering and biotechnology in locations. The resulting cellular are governed by the signals received a way that seemed far beyond the structures are necessarily rather crude from surrounding cells, and some technologies of the time. approximations of the original design, are themselves mobile in developing The results

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Published: Mar 25, 2020

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