{"id":177242,"date":"2023-12-02T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/anthrobots-scientists-build-tiny-biological-robots-from-human-tracheal-cells"},"modified":"2023-12-02T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:22:26","slug":"anthrobots-scientists-build-tiny-biological-robots-from-human-tracheal-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/anthrobots-scientists-build-tiny-biological-robots-from-human-tracheal-cells","title":{"rendered":"Anthrobots: Scientists build tiny biological robots from human tracheal 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\/0MS_18Sje7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University\u2019s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish.<\/p>\n<p>The multicellular robots, ranging in size from the width of a human hair to the point of a sharpened pencil, were made to self-assemble and shown to have a remarkable healing effect on other <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>. The discovery is a starting point for the researchers\u2019 vision to use patient-derived biobots as new therapeutic tools for regeneration, healing, and treatment of disease.<\/p>\n<p>The work follows from earlier research in the laboratories of Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology at Tufts University School of Arts &amp; Sciences, and Josh Bongard at the University of Vermont in which they created multicellular biological robots from frog embryo cells called <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2020-01-team-robots.html\">Xenobots<\/a>, capable of navigating passageways, collecting material, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2021-03-scientists-robots.html\">recording information<\/a>, healing themselves from injury, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2021-11-xenobots-team-robots.html\">replicating for a few cycles<\/a> on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University\u2019s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish. The multicellular robots, ranging in size from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177242","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\/177242","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\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}