New York Times cites ECE Affiliate Professor Bashir
7/12/2016 Claire Hettinger, ECE ILLINOIS
Bashir's research includes biological robots also called bio-bots, which use light stimulus to direct their movement through an environment.
Written by Claire Hettinger, ECE ILLINOIS
The Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering Rashid Bashir is featured as an expert source in "Stingray Robot Powered by Light, and Living Rat Cells," a New York Times article by Steph Yin about “biohybrid” robotics. An international team of scientists designed a robotic stingray that they detailed in the journal Science on Thursday.
Credit Karaghen Hudson and Michael Rosnach
Bashir works on other projects including biological robots also called bio-bots. They use light stimulus to direct the movement of the bio-bots through an environment. For more about his research, check out this article and one of his research papers.
The article featured a stingray robot that follows pulses of light to effectively swim through an obstacle course. Kevin Kit Parker, a professor at Harvard University, authored a paper on the stingray robot research.