Everything in nature — even those unseen by the naked eye — can spark new inventions, just like these new ultrasound-powered micro-robots created by Mingming Wu and his teammates at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The movements of these tiny robots are said to have been inspired by how bacteria and sperm swim. But why bacteria and sperm? Wu notes the abilities of these two microorganisms. The former can swim ten times its body length in a single second, while the latter can move against the flow.
These robots could one day be used for targeted drug delivery within the human body.
Learn more about this fascinating invention over at the Cornell Chronicle.
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