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Published online 15 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030714-2

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Artbots show talent

Brain cells draft portraits via robot more than a thousand kilometers away.

They may look like mindless scrawls. But the portraits sketched by a robotic arm in New York's Eyebeam gallery are actually the creation of brain cells - growing more than 1,300 kilometres away.

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