Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers developed a robot powered by living muscle cells that move in response to ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right. In a paper published Sept. 28 in the journal Advanced ...

Researchers at MIT built a paper-thin, light-powered biohybrid robot that uses living muscle cells to swim and steer through ...

An octopus can bend one part of an arm around an obstacle while another reaches into a small crevice to grab an object.

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. have developed a paper-thin swimming robot powered by ...

According to its developers, the robots skeleton is built on a film of hydrogel that is split in two halves to create the bot ...

SINGAPORE, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a platform that lets lab-grown muscle tissues train themselves to record-breaking ...

A robot uses a layer of muscle cells and light to swim, turn, and move through water for monitoring applications.

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, ...

Moving through water is often more difficult than moving through air. MIT researchers have created a new Aquabot that is ...