Lots of robotic engineers draw inspiration from animals, building everything from bat-like drones to mechanical cheetahs, dogs and octopi. But it’s hard to make a lifelike machine with purely artificial parts, which is why some scientists are building biohybrids, using tissue from real creatures.
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