Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab
Correspondent:: "Den Mu"
Date: 18 Jan 2005 16:19:13 -0800
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According to a BBC News article, nanotechnology researchers at the
University of California's NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles have
created tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue. The scientists
took heart cells from rats and combined them with tiny silicon and
plastic "skeletons". The muscle cells attach to the specific points on
the hardware and begin to grow and function as muscles, moving the
two-footed cyborgs around. Are the tiny robots alive? Professor Carlo
Montemagno, one of the researchers, says, "They're absolutely alive. I
mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble - they form the
structure themselves. So the device is alive." For more, see also an
older article in New Scientist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4181197.stm BBC News article
http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/mainpage.html NanoSystems Institute
http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/faculty/montemagno_c.html Carlo Montemagno
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4714
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:03:35 -0800
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Den Mu wrote:
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> According to a BBC News article, nanotechnology researchers at the
> University of California's NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles have
> created tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue.
I went out the last couple of days taking pictures of boats with tarps
on them. You wouldn't believe how many boats with tarps on them are
parked in people's yards around here. After a while I was like Okay,
that's just another one of those with a blue tarp on it, I need
something good like an orange tarp or a different shape of boat. There
was one really nice one with a brown tarp on it that was so old it was
tattered away and the parts of the boat sticking through were shiny
bright pink. Just like people, pink inside!
Correspondent:: "Kevin Cunningham"
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:16:19 GMT
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"Den Mu" wrote in message
news:1106093953.674136.111550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> According to a BBC News article, nanotechnology researchers at the
> University of California's NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles have
> created tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue. The scientists
> took heart cells from rats and combined them with tiny silicon and
> plastic "skeletons". The muscle cells attach to the specific points on
> the hardware and begin to grow and function as muscles, moving the
> two-footed cyborgs around. Are the tiny robots alive? Professor Carlo
> Montemagno, one of the researchers, says, "They're absolutely alive. I
> mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble - they form the
> structure themselves. So the device is alive." For more, see also an
> older article in New Scientist.
>
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4181197.stm BBC News article
> http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/mainpage.html NanoSystems Institute
> http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/faculty/montemagno_c.html Carlo Montemagno
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4714
>
Their alive! THEIR ALIVE!!!! BOOWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Ok, in the future please use the above to start a discusion like this.
Tradition must be respected.
Rev. Dr. Junior Mints
Anti-Pope of Atlanta