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This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells
"This is the coolest thing you're going to see all year." This soft robotic stingray is made of rat heart muscle. Yeah, it's just as crazy as it sounds. "Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant, and a pinch of gold. That pretty much sums it up, except for the genetic engineering," says Kit Parker, the bio-engineer at Harvard who led the team that developed the strange robot.
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Very cool! I do look forward to the future of the integration of machinery and biological cells. The question of is it a living thing? Is it an organism? Is quite an interesting one and would probably be cause for debate similar to the discussion around viruses.