Introducing robo-ray: part animal, part machine

‘It’s a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
No, it’s not the T-800 from the 1991 film Terminator 2 – but a robotic stingray made of rat heart cells stretched over a gold frame that can glide through water just like the real thing.
Sung-Jin Park from Harvard University and colleagues in the US and South Korea showed off their new method for building bio-inspired robots with engineered tissue in the journal Science.’
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