Wireless Aquatic Robot Could Clean Water and Transport Cells (IMAGE)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Wireless Aquatic Robot Could Clean Water and Transport Cells

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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology developed a tiny plastic robot, made of responsive polymers, which moves under the influence of light and magnetism. In the future this ‘wireless aquatic polyp’ should be able to attract and capture contaminant particles from the surrounding liquid or pick up and transport cells for analysis in diagnostic devices. The researchers published their results in the journal PNAS.

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Marina Pilz Da Cunha

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