 In new research from a team of scientists with the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, living organisms will be added to Army mechanical systems like LEGAT platforms similar to these Army and Marine Corps experimental platforms to improve how future soldiers engage with robots. This research space is called Biohybrid Robotics. Soldiers envision future LEGAT platforms with muscle tissue added to robotic joints in place of traditional actuators. Embedding muscle tissue in future robots is expected to produce never seen before agility and versatility, and open up new opportunities for robots to venture into space as highly risky for warfighters. Muscle at its core can accommodate unpredictable needs because it stretches. Muscle is partly responsible for weightlifters ability to lift or press hundreds of pounds. In this biohybrid research effort, Army researchers are interested in introducing the kind of agility and precision that muscle offers biological systems to mechanical systems. As muscle serves as the human body's distributed actuator, researchers want to improve the characteristics of mechanical actuators. Muscles also adjust. It's muscle actuation that contributes majorly to animals' ability to balance on and navigate uneven and unreliable terrain. The first applications for Biohybrid Robotics the team expects to focus on include LEGAT platforms similar to the U.S. Army's LEGAT local motion and movement adaptation research platform known as LAMA and the U.S. Marine Corps' LEGAT squad support system for LS3.