Rise of the machines? New steps toward bionic humans

Rise of the machines? New steps toward bionic humans: "Robots made of programmable living tissues … sound like fiction straight out of Battlestar Galactica? New research could pave the way to machines built from biological materials -- and it could rebuild a broken human heart.




The team developing the technology, led by Ali Khademhosseini, an associate professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, published their findings in the journal ACS Nano. Their invention: bionic tissue, a hybrid material composed of cardiac cells, gel and carbon nanotubes."