An ultrasound-powered robot fish?! Meet Stingraybot - a clever little device filled with bubbles. Something like this could one day be swimming through your digestive tract, according to the scientists who invented it.
Produced and presented by Shamini Bundell
Research footage from Acoustic Robotics Systems Laboratory
Stock images from Getty Images / ITN / Vincent Isore/IP3
Music from Triple Scoop Music / Bella Ruse
Supervising Producers: Dan Fox & Maren Hunsberger
From Shi, Z., Zhang, Z., Schnermann, J. et al. Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles. Nature 646, 1096–1104 (2025)
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Produced and presented by Shamini Bundell
Research footage from Acoustic Robotics Systems Laboratory
Stock images from Getty Images / ITN / Vincent Isore/IP3
Music from Triple Scoop Music / Bella Ruse
Supervising Producers: Dan Fox & Maren Hunsberger
From Shi, Z., Zhang, Z., Schnermann, J. et al. Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles. Nature 646, 1096–1104 (2025)
Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday: https://www.nature.com/briefing
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