More on living in the future
Jan. 17th, 2005 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusThis is so cool!
'Living' robots powered by muscle
Professor Carlo Montemagno, of UCLA, has made itty bitty robots using metal or plastic "skeletons" and actual living muscle to move them around.
The devices (critters?) are microscopic now. When they grow up, of course, they look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It doesn't say how they're powered. But, if they combine it with this technology, they can have a living, self-sustaining robot/organism/thingy. Now all they need is a way for it to reproduce itself to be a fully qualified new species.
'Living' robots powered by muscle
Professor Carlo Montemagno, of UCLA, has made itty bitty robots using metal or plastic "skeletons" and actual living muscle to move them around.
They're absolutely alive," Professor Montemagno told BBC News. "I mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble - they form the structure themselves. So the device is alive."
The devices (critters?) are microscopic now. When they grow up, of course, they look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It doesn't say how they're powered. But, if they combine it with this technology, they can have a living, self-sustaining robot/organism/thingy. Now all they need is a way for it to reproduce itself to be a fully qualified new species.
