Researchers have developed a technology that lets a user move a small robot by bending and straightening a finger. The user ...

In a shallow dish of water, a sliver of gel no bigger than a stick of gum flaps its way toward a blue light. The swimmer has ...

Moving through water is often more difficult than moving through air. MIT researchers have created a new Aquabot that is extremely small and whose muscles can be stimulated by light. This allowed them ...

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin, two-finned robot lined with light-sensitive muscle cells that can swim and swivel ...

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 ...

A beetle robot that can be controlled with the simple motion of bending and straightening a finger has been developed. The ...

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

MIT engineers created a paper-thin swimming robot that uses light-controlled living muscle cells to move and steer through ...

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 ...

MIT’s tiny robot uses living muscle cells to swim through water, offering a glimpse at how biohybrid machines could power ...

A lightweight robotic device that facilitates neuromuscular recovery in children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), helping them to stand unassisted, is published in Nature this week. Improved ...

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 ...