The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through areas that are too small or complex.
It has been a long endeavor to create biohybrid robots – machines powered by lab-grown muscle as potential actuators. But there’s been a major hurdle. Existing artificial muscle s can only pull in one direction, which limits their movement. It’s like a robot that can only flex its arm but never rotate it.Researchers at MIT have cracked this code to create a complex, multi-directional motion robotic system.
Take for instance, the circular musculature in our iris and around our trachea. And even within our arms and legs, muscle cells don’t point straight, but at an angle,” Raman noted. “Natural muscle has multiple orientations in the tissue, but we haven’t been able to replicate that in our engineered muscles,” she added. Artificial muscles move like irisThe team 3D-printed a small, handheld stamp with extremely fine grooves, sized to match individual muscle cells.
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