Soft Robotics: Soft Ring‐Shaped Cellu‐Robots with Simultaneous Locomotion in Batches (Adv. Mater. 8/2020)

Abstract

In article number 1905713, Utkan Demirci and co-workers report a locomotion strategy to guide the formation and operation of multiple nueronal mini-robots by way of a common acoustic stimulus. These scaffold-free, ring-shaped cellu-robots comprise only highly packed cells, making them less cumbersome during locomotion, and they can react together in response to a single uniform external acoustic signal to form complex structures in seconds, giving them potential applications in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and pharmacokinetic studies.