Killer robots with superhuman strength move a step closer as scientists combine muscles with machine

Human-robot hybrids could be in the pipeline as Japanese scientists have succeeded in merging muscle fibres with a robotic skeleton. Previous attempts at this have been short-lived and prone to failure. A new study took a different approach and grew the muscles from scratch, instead of taking a muscle that had grown inside an animal. This discovery could pave the way for superhuman cyborgs, but scientists say larger-scale applications are at least a decade away. Biorobotics is a developing area of science which aims to combine the best of the natural world with the best of the field of robotics.