{"id":34537,"date":"2017-02-14T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/you-can-now-build-your-own-3d-printed-bio-bots"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:13:33","slug":"you-can-now-build-your-own-3d-printed-bio-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/you-can-now-build-your-own-3d-printed-bio-bots","title":{"rendered":"You can now build your own 3D printed bio-bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep; we know and we can even design them to make their own.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You could now 3D print your own tiny walking \u201cbio-bots\u201d powered by living muscle cells and controlled with electrical and light pulses, thanks to a new gennext robot \u2018recipe\u2019 developed by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>This can result in exciting possibilities where these \u201csystems could one day demonstrate complex behaviours including self-assembly, self-organisation, self-healing, and adaptation of composition and functionality to best suit their environment,\u201d researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protocol teaches every step of building a bio-bot, from 3D printing the skeleton to tissue engineering the skeletal muscle actuator, including manufacturers and part numbers for every single thing we use in the lab,\u201d said Ritu Raman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com\/others\/sci-tech\/you-can-now-build-your-own-3d-printed-bio-bots\/articleshow\/57152028.cms\">http:\/\/mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com\/others\/sci-tech\/you-can-n...152028.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep; we know and we can even design them to make their own. You could now 3D print your own tiny walking \u201cbio-bots\u201d powered by living muscle cells and controlled with electrical and light pulses, thanks to a new gennext robot \u2018recipe\u2019 developed by scientists. This can result in exciting possibilities where these \u201csystems could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537","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=34537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537\/revisions\/47992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}