# ETH Zurich uses mouse muscle tissue to enable tiny biohybrid robots to jump, swim, walk and grasp

- Source: Tech Xplore Robotics
- Published: 2026-10-22T19:40:19.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/e16c3bi7paclb2gjh17atgrn4
- Original: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-lab-grown-mouse-muscles-enable.html

## Summary

A research team at ETH Zurich published a study in Nature Communications in which they used computer simulation to co-design mouse skeletal muscle tissue and a soft hydrogel scaffold as an integrated whole, producing a biological actuator about 1.5 centimeters long with a range of motion up to 11 times that of existing systems with the same amount of muscle.