2024-02-01 06:30:00
This is an announcement worthy of a science fiction film. Researchers from the University of Tokyo (Japan) have managed to design a… living robot. Robophobes can immediately rest assured, the machine has nothing to do with Ameca, the ultra-realistic (or ultra-terrifying, depending on one’s sensibilities) humanoid from the British start-up Engineered Arts. This consists of two biohybrid legs (that is to say made up of living muscles) created from rat cells. In detail, the small automaton, which can only move underwater because it continuously hydrates its muscles, is made up of a float which keeps it in a vertical position, and 3D printed legs made of substrates. flexible.
5.4 millimeters per minute
The automaton is the first of its kind to be able to rotate. A very interesting quality according to Cell Press, the publishing house which publishes Matter, the scientific journal in which the study was published on January 26. “The ability to pivot and make sharp turns is essential for robots to avoid obstacles.” The robot moves forward thanks to electrical impulses which are sent to its legs and which allow its muscles to contract. During their study, the team from the University of Tokyo managed to make it move at a speed of 5.4 millimeters per minute. The craft also completed a 90-degree rotation in 62 seconds. It is therefore better to be patient to admire its movements!
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In the future, scientists plan to make their biped more agile and powerful by equipping it with joints and thicker muscle tissue. Above all, they aim to equip it with a nutrient supply system so that it can evolve in the open air. For them, this research might now “open the way to a more advanced imitation of the subtleties of the mechanism of human walking in the development of biohybrid robotics”.
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