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Most robots have motors, batteries, and electronics. This one has muscle.
MIT engineers built a swimming robot thinner than a single sheet of paper, powered by living skeletal muscle cells attached to a flexible polymer frame.
When hit with pulses of light, the cells contract, flapping the robot's fin-like structure and propelling it through water.
No wires. No electronics. No battery inside the robot.
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