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How to mass produce cell-sized robots

"Technique from MIT could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring". Reblog with caption 🙃

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How to mass produce cell-sized robots 

Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls "syncells" (short for synthetic cells), might eventually be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline, or to search out disease while floating through the bloodstream. 

This photo shows circles on a graphene sheet where the sheet is draped over an array of round posts, creating stresses that will cause these discs to separate from the sheet. The gray bar across the sheet is liquid being used to lift the discs from the surface. Credit: Felice Frankel