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AI controls laser-guided worms as if they were robots
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opini...orms-68957
EXCERPTS: Roboticists have for the first time built an automated computational system for controlling the movements of a living multicellular organism—a genetically engineered worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) whose muscles contract in response to blue light. The laser-guided nematode, described last week (June 30) in Science Robotics, is called RoboWorm.
“Most of the biohybrid microrobots [in development] are mainly based on bacteria,” says Li Zhang, a nanomaterials and microrobotics researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was not involved in the research. But in this study, “they propose the use of C. elegans, a worm, as a robotic agent . . . [in a] very interesting and smart way.”
[...] C. elegans, is a free-living nematode worm approximately 1 mm in length that resides in soil and is an extensively studied model organism in laboratories around the world. Liu says he does not have a particular application in mind for RoboWorm; rather, its creation was a “conceptual demonstration.” But it may inspire further microrobotic developments. Indeed, says Zhang, while C. elegans does not live in humans, it has close parasitic relatives that do, and perhaps future versions of RoboWorm could have biomedical uses... (MORE - details)
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AI controls laser-guided worms as if they were robots
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opini...orms-68957
EXCERPTS: Roboticists have for the first time built an automated computational system for controlling the movements of a living multicellular organism—a genetically engineered worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) whose muscles contract in response to blue light. The laser-guided nematode, described last week (June 30) in Science Robotics, is called RoboWorm.
“Most of the biohybrid microrobots [in development] are mainly based on bacteria,” says Li Zhang, a nanomaterials and microrobotics researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was not involved in the research. But in this study, “they propose the use of C. elegans, a worm, as a robotic agent . . . [in a] very interesting and smart way.”
[...] C. elegans, is a free-living nematode worm approximately 1 mm in length that resides in soil and is an extensively studied model organism in laboratories around the world. Liu says he does not have a particular application in mind for RoboWorm; rather, its creation was a “conceptual demonstration.” But it may inspire further microrobotic developments. Indeed, says Zhang, while C. elegans does not live in humans, it has close parasitic relatives that do, and perhaps future versions of RoboWorm could have biomedical uses... (MORE - details)