Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

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These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.

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“Nanomachines, son”

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I’m not very techie, but have scientists now built a robotic Trump?

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If Trump was a worm and a few tens of micrometers long, then yes

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So they actually built his penis.

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I think they started with the penis?

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Neat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.

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They’re made by a laser 3D printer and they only move in an externally applied electric field. I don’t think we have to worry about anything like that anytime soon :)

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We finally made amoeba-like intelligence

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Please call them republobots.

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Comments in Technology@beehaw.org

For those wondering: The energy source is an alternating external electric field

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This has gotta be the 10th “We have invented Nano-Bots!!! (That are really just shapes controlled by a big magnet outside the body) That I have seen in the past decade or 2)

It’s the equivalent of moving around a mini sailboat in a pool using a leaf blower. Just because you found ways to make it move in incredible ways, doesn’t make it a robot.

None of them are ever robots and none of them are ever Nano-Bots. Yes, they are useful advances in medicine, but every article, (and seemingly the researchers too,) love to sensationalize them to high heaven.

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No one can invent nano bots, they need to be stepwise developed.

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