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June 23, 2021Science Robotics

Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans

Xianke Dong Sina Kheiri Yangning Lu Zhaoyi Xu Mei Zhen

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Abstract

The combination of microrobotics and optogenetics enables closed-loop locomotion control of a living nematode worm.

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Dong et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaf6dc35fea9adb0825dc1b https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abe3950

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