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 ...

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

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

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 ...