Robot arm tastes with engineered bacteria

Robot arm ‘tastes’ with engineered bacteria

A robotic gripping arm that uses engineered bacteria to “taste” for a specific chemical has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis, and Carnegie Mellon University. The gripper is a proof of concept for biologically based soft robotics. “Our long-term vision is about building a synthetic microbiota for soft robots that can […]

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