Cyborg sea slugs are here! 'Frankenstein robot' crawls using muscles made from marine creatures and a 3D printed body

With soft, slimy bodies that come in a rainbow of colours, sea slugs are some of the weirdest looking creatures in the ocean. But now scientists have used the strange marine invertebrates to help them build a new type of flexible cyborg robot. Using tough muscles taken from the mouths of sea slugs, engineers have combined them with 3D printed components to create what they are calling'biohybrid' robots. Engineers have created a'biohybrid' robot that uses the mouth muscles from the California sea slug. The muscle is attached to 3D printed body and legs (pictured), allowing the robot to crawl like a sea turtle pulling itself up the beach.