Self-organized Neurobot (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Self-organized Neurobot

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The team made an important step towards creating self-organizing biological robots with a functional nervous system. As can be seen in this image, neurobots are made of an outer surface consisting of multicilliated cells, mucus-secreting goblet cells, ionocytes, and small secretory cells, and a nervous system that reaches out to surface cells underneath.

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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