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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2011 IEEE 24th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9632-7
DOI :
10.1109/MEMSYS.2011.5734382
