Lab-grown mouse muscles enable tiny robots to jump, swim, walk and grasp

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech) at 22 Oct, 19:40 UTC

Lab-grown skeletal muscle tissue can contract, but the movement is often so slight that it is barely visible. This poses a problem for biohybrid robots designed to move using living muscles. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now demonstrated that it is not just the amount of muscle tissue that…

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• T2Lab-grown mouse muscles enable tiny robots to jump, swim, walk and graspPhys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)22 Oct, 19:40