BioPrinting

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UIUC Bio Bots

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 10:27 — Robert McGrath

Yet more awesomeness out of UIUC Bioengineering. Tiny Robots! Powered by muscle tissue!

Fabbers will be interested that the structures were made using 3D printing techniques, to print out "hydrogel".

See the paper for details.

Well done, all.

UI Press release

Publication:

C. Cvetkovic*, R. Raman*, V. Chan, B. J. Williams, M. Tolish, P. Bajaj, M. L. Sakar, H. H. Asada, M. T. A. Saif, R. Bashir, "Three-dimensionally printed biological machines powered by skeletal muscle" PNAS, 2014. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401577111. - (download PDF)