OptoBot7 (IMAGE)
Caption
This is a schematic of a bio-bot: Engineered skeletal muscle tissue is coupled to a 3-D printed flexible skeleton. Optical stimulation of the muscle tissue, which is genetically engineered to contract in response to blue light, makes the bio-bot walk across a surface in the direction of the light.
Credit
Janet Sinn-Hanlon, University of Illinois
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