Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

Park, Sung-Jin; Gazzola, Mattia; Soo Park, Kyung; Park, Shirley; Di Santo, Valentina; L. Blevins, Erin; U. Lind, Johan; H. Campbell, Patrick; Dauth, Stephanie; K. Capulli, Andrew; S. Pasqualini, Francesco; Ahn, Seungkuk; Cho, Alexander; Yuan, Hongyan; M. Maoz, Ben; Vijaykumar, Ragu; Choi, Jeong-Woo; Deisseroth, Karl; V. Lauder, George; Mahadevan, L.; Kit Parker, Kevin

doi:10.1126/science.aaf4292

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Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

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Sung-Jin Park

Mattia Gazzola

Kyung Soo Park

Abstract

Swim into the light A bio-inspired swimming robot that mimics a ray fish can be guided by light. Park et al. built a 1/10th-scale version of a ray fish with a microfabricated gold skeleton and a rubber body powered by rat heart muscle cells. The cardiomyocytes were genetically engineered to respond ...

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