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Stanford report
"Fly-catching robot developed by Stanford scientists speeds biomedical research"
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has created a robot that expands the scope of biomedical research that can be carried out with a common laboratory organism – fruit flies. The tool both speeds existing research and opens new fields of study.

by Amy Adams
May 25, 2015

 

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Robot handling live fruit flies used in science experiments

Uploaded on May 28, 2015

A team led by Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and of applied physics at Stanford, has created a robot that can visually inspect awake fruit flies and carry out behavioral experiments that were impossible with anesthetized flies.

 

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Robot catches fruit flies

Published on Jun 6, 2015

Stanford Bio-X scientists created a robot that can catch, visually inspect and carry out behavioral experiments with live fruit flies (Drosophila).

Credit: Stanford University
Dexterous robotic manipulation of alert adult Drosophila for high-content experimentation
Joan Savall, Eric Tatt Wei Ho, Cheng Huang, Jessica R Maxey & Mark J Schnitzer
Nature Methods (2015) doi:10.1038/nmeth.3410