Micro-motor runs on bacteria power

added Mon Aug 28 22:10 2006 ET from MSNBC

"In far future plans, we would like to make micro-robots driven by biological motors," researcher Yuichi Hiratsuka, a nanobiotechnologist now at the University of Tokyo, told LiveScience.

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