A Snake-Inspired Robot Built for the Small Intestine
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Engineers at MIT built a new soft robot.
- A2
Engineers at MIT built a new soft robot.
- B1
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a soft robot.
- B2
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a soft robot.
- C1
The small intestine sits deep inside the body and measures an inch wide and over 20 feet long.
- C2
Deep inside the body lies the small intestine, a narrow tract an inch wide and between 20 and 25 feet long.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- intestine
- a long tube inside the body that digests food after it leaves the stomach
- tissue
- a group of connected cells in an animal or plant that are similar to each other
- grip
- to hold something very tightly so that it does not slip
- chamber
- an enclosed space or room, often inside a machine or a body
- steer
- to control the direction in which a vehicle or device moves
- slippery
- wet or smooth so that it is difficult to hold or walk on without sliding
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.