The lite Robotic: Researchers Adapt Living Cells to Robotic Systems, but Ethical and Technological Questions Remain

摘要

Add one more item to the list of materials that someday could be commonly used to build robots - living tissue.rnRelatively recently, scientists in the academic and business communities have made breakthroughs in creating devices that use actual cells to form functional blood vessels, which can be used in transplant surgery. It is not unreasonable, they say, to envision the day when more advanced versions of the machines they built will be used to produce entire organs - or, perhaps, critical components for robotic devices.