This biohybrid robot walks using lab-grown mouse muscles

Image credit: Zhi Dou, Gazzola Lab at UIUC. Article by Joanna Thompson. Inverse – January 23, 2023

Engineers have created the fastest-moving part-meat robot yet.

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic matter and forced to perform menial factory work. Today, “robot” is largely used to describe an entirely different type of worker — an automaton usually made from steel and plastic. But that connotation may soon begin to swing back towards Capek’s organic vision. […]

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