Muscular Thin Films: Soft Robotic Devices

Obviously, the transhumanists are going to be all over this Muscular Thin Films technology. The technology is coating a silicon-based organic polymer with heart muscle cells that react to electrical stimuli, which are then easily cut off into sheets. The video shows that the sheets have semi-motility in swimming with this simple motion.

It would be most interesting to see if this can be used to create probes for deep sea exploration. There will be more advanced applications (artificial arms in ten years?) but when i see "swimming" robots, no matter how small, that's what pops into my head.