The human race may now be treading on dangerous territory with the production of human-robot hybrids just a few years away. Believe it or not, Japanese scientists have succeeded in merging muscle fibres with a robotic skeleton.
Previous attempts at this have been short-lived and prone to failure.
The new approach is that muscles are being grown from scratch, instead of taking a muscle that had grown inside an animal.
The not so encouraging news is that this discovery could pave the way for superhuman cyborgs. However, scientists say larger-scale applications are at least a decade away.
This cross-over project is a major breakthrough in the field of biorobotics. This is because it uses fully-functioning skeletal muscle tissue.
A common issue facing scientists before was that the muscles had a tendency to lose their strength and shrink.
Previous attempts at this have been short-lived and prone to failure.
The new approach is that muscles are being grown from scratch, instead of taking a muscle that had grown inside an animal.
The not so encouraging news is that this discovery could pave the way for superhuman cyborgs. However, scientists say larger-scale applications are at least a decade away.
This cross-over project is a major breakthrough in the field of biorobotics. This is because it uses fully-functioning skeletal muscle tissue.
A common issue facing scientists before was that the muscles had a tendency to lose their strength and shrink.
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