{"id":83906,"date":"2018-10-24T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mit-punches-out-cell-sized-robots-made-of-graphene"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:14:35","slug":"mit-punches-out-cell-sized-robots-made-of-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mit-punches-out-cell-sized-robots-made-of-graphene","title":{"rendered":"MIT punches out cell-sized robots made of graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-punches-out-cell-sized-robots-made-of-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots are getting smaller and smaller, from the size of <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-microbot-all-terrain\/53401\/\" target=\"_blank\">bugs<\/a> down to <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/drexel-bead-microswimmers-drug-delivery\/44630\/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny bead-shaped robots<\/a> that could one day swim through the body to monitor health or deliver medication. MIT engineers recently managed to create <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/mit-cell-sized-robots\/55580\/\" target=\"_blank\">cell-sized robots<\/a> that could collect data about their environment, but were a little tricky to manufacture. Now, the team has found a way to mass produce these synthetic cells (syncells) through controlled fracturing of graphene.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/mit-syncells-cell-robots\/56921\/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/mit-syncells-cell-robots\/56921\/?amp=tru...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are getting smaller and smaller, from the size of bugs down to tiny bead-shaped robots that could one day swim through the body to monitor health or deliver medication. MIT engineers recently managed to create cell-sized robots that could collect data about their environment, but were a little tricky to manufacture. Now, the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84017,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83906\/revisions\/84017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}