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Friday, April 13, 2012

Cyberplasm, the synthetic-biology microscale biohybrid robot

Cyberplasm, the synthetic-biology microscale biohybrid robot. | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com: "*Given the principles of “synthetic biology,” I can see why an attempt to develop this bizarre nano-gizmo makes good solid research sense. A great deal could be learned from this effort. “Synthetic actuators,” “optoelectronic interfaces”…This effort is sure a new on on me, though. Little teensy robots in the human bloodstream are something of a science-fiction staple, but this “biohybrid” thing is the robotic equivalent of a white blood cell. A thing the size of a cell, as gooey as a cell, that’s a little computer-guided machine made mostly of repurposed cell structures. It has a very Rachel Armstrong feeling about it, somehow."

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