Inspired by a manta-ray, researchers have created the fastest soft swimming robot with high manoeuvrability. | New Scientist

Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water 🤖🌊 A tiny, bipedal robot that combines muscle tissue with artificial materials can walk and turn by contracting its muscles. While biohybrid robots that crawl and swim have been built before with lab-grown muscle, this is the first such bipedal robot that can pivot and make sharp turns. It does this by applying electricity to one of the legs to make the muscle contract, while the other leg remains anchored. https://www.newscientist.com/artic