{"id":27645,"date":"2016-07-09T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/researchers-develop-robotic-stingray-from-living-rat-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:08:29","slug":"researchers-develop-robotic-stingray-from-living-rat-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/researchers-develop-robotic-stingray-from-living-rat-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Develop Robotic Stingray from Living Rat 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\/eUlKwvhSu3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/\">artificially organic stingray<\/a> created by a team of researchers is redefining what constitutes a living organism. The small stingray is controlled and powered by light-activated cells taken from a rat\u2019s heart. All anatomical features relative to a real stingray are present on the artificial creature which utilizes a polymer skin to create structure. Cells embed inside the skin are capable of flapping the wings of the stingray, propelling it through the water as well as controlling direction with the artificial stingray tail.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/researchers-develop-robotic-stingray-living-rat-cells\/\">http:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/researchers-develop-roboti...rat-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new artificially organic stingray created by a team of researchers is redefining what constitutes a living organism. The small stingray is controlled and powered by light-activated cells taken from a rat\u2019s heart. All anatomical features relative to a real stingray are present on the artificial creature which utilizes a polymer skin to create structure. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61258,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions\/61258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}