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Engineers Create a Swimming Robot Powered by Muscle Cells

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a paper-thin swimming robot. It is moved by a single layer of living muscle cells. The robot has a gel skeleton that is about the size of a stick of gum. This skeleton forms two fins. These fins are covered in muscle cells that are thinner than a human hair.

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