Although we often regard our own bodies and those of the other multicellular organisms around us as a singular entity, each cell that makes up our body is its own, nano-robot. One long-existing question was whether these cells can be used for other tasks — like biological robots — after they have specialized into a specific tissue type, with a recent study by [Gizem Gumuskaya] and colleagues in Advanced Science (with Nature news coverage) indicating a potential intriguing use of adult human epithelial cells recovered from the trachea.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/anthrobots-tiny-robots-from-tracheal-epithelium-cells-that-can-fix-neural-damage/