Bio-bot (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Bio-bot

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Bio-bots are propelled by a ring of muscle on a hydrogel skeleton. Illinois researchers have been the first to innervate them with rat spinal cord segments, giving the 'spinobots' a natural walking rhythm.

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Image courtesy Collin Kaufman

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Credit Collin Kaufman, University of Illinois

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