# Rise of the Machines Part 4

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 27, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997 "2005-01-27T22:39:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997/1 "2005-01-27T22:39:23Z")

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I think we’re up that high, anyway, meet the [robot powered by heart muscles!](http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050122/fob6.asp)

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> In a Los Angeles laboratory, researchers have let loose scores of what amount to living micromachines. Dwarfed by a comma, each tiny device consists of an arch of gold coated along its inner surface with a sheath of cardiac muscle grown from rat cells. With each of the muscle bundles’ automatic cycles of contraction and relaxation, the device takes a step.
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> Viewed under a microscope, “they move very fast,” says bioengineer Jianzhong Xi of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “The first time I saw that, it was kind of scary.”
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> Xi and his UCLA colleagues Jacob J. Schmidt and Carlo D. Montemagno describe their musclebots in the February Nature Materials.

Okay, I keep having this vision of the T800 digging in someone’s chest (like the guy in _Temple of Doom_) and saying in a robotic voice, “I require your power source.”:eek:

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997/2 "2005-01-28T00:11:25Z")

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I suggest to you [this link](http://forms.theregister.co.uk/search/?q=rise+of+the+machines&x=0&y=0)

There are quite a few articles documenting the coming Rise of the Machines.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997/3 "2005-01-28T00:16:11Z")

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“Resistance is futile…”

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-part-4/286997/4 "2005-01-28T03:36:09Z")

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Since nobody else has mentioned it…

I, for one, welcome our new cardiac-powered machine overlords. 😃