Magnetic microalgae: Tiny swimmers are on a mission to become robots
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart developed a biohybrid micro ...
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Scientists turn tiny algae-powered robots into Olympic athletes with magnet control
The scientists discovered that adding a magnetic coating to green algae micro-swimmers had minimal impact on their swimming ability. The algae — using a breast-stroke motion with their flagella — ...
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Magnetic microalgae on a mission to become robots
Birgül Akolpoglu and Saadet Fatma Baltaci, who co-led the study, are scientists from the Physical Intelligence Department at MPI-IS. A few years ago ... Using external magnetic fields, they were able ...