DocumentCode
2765838
Title
Long-term and room temperature operable bio-microrobot powered by insect heart tissue
Author
Akiyama, Y. ; Odaira, K. ; Iwabuchi, K. ; Morishima, K.
Author_Institution
Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2011
fDate
23-27 Jan. 2011
Firstpage
145
Lastpage
148
Abstract
This paper describes an insect muscle-powered autonomous microrobot (iPAM) which can work long-term at room temperature without any maintenance. The iPAM moved autonomously at an average velocity of 26.4 μm/s using spontaneous contractions of a whole insect dorsal vessel (DV) and the moving velocity was accelerated temporally by adding insect hormone. These results suggest that the insect DV has a higher potential for being a biological microactuator than other biological cell-based materials.
Keywords
bioMEMS; biological tissues; biomechanics; blood vessels; cardiology; medical robotics; microactuators; microrobots; muscle; bio-microrobot; biological cell-based materials; biological microactuator; contractions; dorsal vessel; iPAM; insect heart tissue; insect muscle-powered autonomous microrobot; temperature 293 K to 298 K; velocity 26.4 mum/s; Actuators; Cardiology; Force; Heart; Insects; Leg; Muscles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2011 IEEE 24th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Cancun
ISSN
1084-6999
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9632-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MEMSYS.2011.5734382
Filename
5734382
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