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Metal or muscle? The future of biologically inspired robots

Barry Andrew Trimmer1

  • 1Departments of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroscience, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.

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Biology has inspired the development of agile robots, and it is now teaching us how to grow machines from living cells.

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