Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a type of walking 'bio-bot' powered by skeletal muscle cells. The bots muscle cells can be controlled by light, causing it to move forwards.

The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. Engineers have developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm ...

For the past several years, researchers have been developing a class of walking 'bio-bots' powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses. Now, a research group is ...

Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed tiny biological machines capable of walking by using twitching muscle cells. Remarkably, these self-propelled “bio-bots ...

With the aid of a 3-D printer, researchers have fashioned soft, quarter-inch-long biological robots out of gel-like material and rat heart cells. When the cells beat, the bio-bots take a step. The ...

First of all, a ‘bio-bot’ is a machine which uses synthetic 3D-printed material with biological muscle tissue. Having stated the latter, researchers from the University of Illinois have ...

A "bio-bot" made of gel, nanocrystals and rat heart cells could help researchers test experimental heart drugs.

Six years ago, we first heard about tiny two-legged "bio-bots" that used spinal muscle tissue to walk. Well, they've now received a big upgrade, in the form of spinal cord tissue that essentially ...

Most of these bio-bots are experiments in different kinds of locomotion—attempts to make robots that maneuver less like unmanned vehicles and more like beasts.

Called a “bio-bot,” the microscopic biological machine swims like a sperm, is powered by heart cells, propelled by a tail and can navigate the aquatic world of micro-organisms on its own.

Scientists create fleshy ‘bio-bots’ made of living cells which can wriggle and walk A WORLD filled with living and breathing robots is one step closer, with scientists creating bio-bots that ...

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking 'bio-bots' powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical ...