The Debut of a Robotic Stingray, Powered by Light-Activated Rat Cells (6 of 18) (IMAGE)

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The Debut of a Robotic Stingray, Powered by Light-Activated Rat Cells (6 of 18)

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Optogenetic tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray is shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.-J. Park at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray."

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Karaghen Hudson and Michael Rosnach

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