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Micro robot with a brush

10.11.2005

A self-propelled microscopic robot with its own muscles has been created at the University of California (USA).

This is an elastic metal bow 50 micrometers long, on which a layer of rat heart cells is grown. When the device is placed in a glucose solution, which is the food for the cells, the muscle layer begins to contract, then pulling the ends of the arc towards each other, then releasing them. As a result, the robot crawls along the substrate at a speed of up to 40 micrometers per second.

In another American laboratory, they learned how to grow brushes from carbon nanotubes one hundredth of a millimeter long.

In the future, perhaps, doctors will be able to launch self-propelled robots with brushes into the circulatory system to clean blood vessels from cholesterol deposits. But first, the creators of the nanobrush want to test how durable it is, and whether individual bristles will fall out along the way, harming the cells lining the vessel.

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