If we have self-healing, bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs
What do you get when you stretch mouse muscle tissue over a polymer skeleton and attach electronics capable of converting radio-frequency energy into light?
Perhaps a bit of shock when the bioelectronic bot begins to move on its own, with no attached power source. No fewer than 21 boffins affiliated with America's University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and University of Southern California, plus the University of Technology in Dalian, China, describe this feat in an article published on Thursday in the journal Science Robotics.
The authors include: Yongdeok Kim, Yiyuan Yang, Xiaotian Zhang, Zhengwei Li, Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, Insu Park, Jiaojiao Wang, Andrew I. Efimov, Zhi Dou, Yue Wang, Junehu Park, Haiwen Luan, Xinchen Ni, Yun Seong Kim, Janice Baek, Joshua Jaehyung Park, Zhaoqian Xie, Hangbo Zhao, Mattia Gazzola, John A. Rogers, and Rashid Bashir., describes the process of integrating light-sensitive biological tissue, supported by a 3D printed hydrogel scaffold, with a wireless optogenetic sensor.
Activating a light source like a micro-LED typically requires a wired power source like a battery.
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