Posted on 08/28/2006 8:56:04 PM PDT by vikingd00d
Scientists have yoked bacteria to power rotary motors, the first microscopic mechanical devices to successfully incorporate living microbes together with inorganic parts.
"In far future plans, we would like to make micro-robots driven by biological motors," researcher Yuichi Hiratsuka, a nanobiotechnologist now at the University of Tokyo, told LiveScience.
Rest of Article -> LiveScience
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Life Extension Bump!
We will be assimilated BUMP!
>> In the future, instead of live bacteria, the researchers suggest using dead ones to avoid the potential biohazards living microbes pose. These dead "ghosts," as the scientists dub them, can still glide if their motors are given the right organic compounds.
I thought this was really cool... powered by the living dead. :)
BIG DEAL !
No Bump . . .
Using dead germs insures that they won't attempt to unionize.
Using dead germs insures that they won't form a union
Nothing intelligently designed here, therefore no science. Move along please.
Can I ping Glenn Reynolds from here?
They could have a microscopic Iditarod race using bacteria-sleds across a test tube.
Just wait til PITA, I mean PETA, finds out...
Hardly - when I peddle my bicycle I don't declare my bicycle alive, so we have micorbes 'peddling' a rotor, the rotor is just as alive as my bicycle.
Otherwise, I suppose this is interesting as far as it goes.
Soon they will combine to form organic mecha suits, enabling their wearers to become super samurai......
( or so they say on Cartoon Networks adult swim)
I wish I knew!
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