Tiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 21:20
in Biology & Nature
The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. Engineers have developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own.