{"id":161748,"date":"2023-04-08T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/this-incredible-tiny-robot-can-locate-and-capture-individual-cells"},"modified":"2023-04-08T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:24:51","slug":"this-incredible-tiny-robot-can-locate-and-capture-individual-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/this-incredible-tiny-robot-can-locate-and-capture-individual-cells","title":{"rendered":"This Incredible Tiny Robot Can Locate And Capture Individual Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qoZit8v9gdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The latest bit of brilliance from the field of robotics is a tiny micro-motor that can identify, trap, and transport individual cells. It\u2019s a serious feat of engineering that could find uses from medicine to air purification.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, both electric and magnetic fields can control the machine \u2013 and the latter will be vital if the microscopic robot is eventually going to be deployed in the human body, which is what its inventors intend.<\/p>\n<p>The bot ranges from 5 to 27 micrometers across and is made from a specially engineered polystyrene sphere coated with the conductive materials chromium, nickel, and gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest bit of brilliance from the field of robotics is a tiny micro-motor that can identify, trap, and transport individual cells. It\u2019s a serious feat of engineering that could find uses from medicine to air purification. Importantly, both electric and magnetic fields can control the machine \u2013 and the latter will be vital if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}