00:03at first glance you probably think you're looking at some sort of bacteria or another
00:07microscopic creatures swimming around a petri dish but what if I told you these are actually
00:11robots ones made completely of biological cells they're called arthrobots and they could someday
00:17be used to repair nerve damage deliver targeted pharmaceuticals and beyond here's one of the
00:22studies researchers gizm gubush kaya to explain as robots are the first fully cellular living
00:29biological robots made up of human cells similar to how a tiny planted seed autonomously develops and
00:35grows up to be a plant each one of these biological robots and anthrobat also develops from a seed
00:42a single human cell planted into an extracellular matrix into this multi-cellular motile machine
00:49but unlike a regular robot made of wires and gears and the like these have no mechanical parts just
00:55cells which means they are compatible with other biological cells ones which might be in your body
01:00meaning they could be is to repair damaged tissue from the inside in our paper we show that answer
01:05robots can move through a sheet of damaged human nerve cells and repair the nerves in the course of three
01:13days and they're made from the host cells of the person whose tissue they're repairing meaning there's
01:17no concern about the arthur bots being rejected by the body
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