Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

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It has been a long endeavor to create biohybrid robots – machines powered by lab-grown muscle as potential actuators. The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through ...