Abstract
The authors aim to develop muscle cell actuators driven by a photostimulation. Recently, bioactuators that exhibit self-organization have been attracting a lot of attention, because biological devices are expected to have significant abilities such as self-reproduction, self-repair, self-assembly. This study intends to create a Bio-robotic hybrid system which expresses the inherent superior characteristics of a living organism with less invasive control method. To do so, we develop an actuator for a robot with a muscle tissue of developing chick embryos. We observed that the muscle cell actuator is contracted by a blue light stimulation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 169-174 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Procedia CIRP |
Volume | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 1st CIRP Conference on BioManufacturing, BioM 2013 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 2013 Mar 3 → 2013 Mar 5 |
Keywords
- Bio-actuator
- Bio-robotic hybrid system
- Cell stretching
- Channelrhodopsin-2
- Chick embryos