Real‐Time Force Monitoring of Electrically Stimulated 3D‐Bioengineered Muscle Bioactuators Using Organic Sensors with Tunable Sensitivity [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent SystemsThe contractile nature of skeletal muscle tissue makes it especially attractive for powering biohybrid actuators. Significant efforts have been dedicated to the improvement and control of contraction force, going one step forward toward the automation of
Stefano Lai +5 more
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Enhanced Hill's Muscle Model for Tissue‐Engineered Skeletal Muscle and its Application to Reverse‐Action Tweezers Actuation [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent SystemsMany bioactuator studies focus on muscle tissue construction, with limited attention to control engineering aspects. This study develops an enhanced Hill's muscle model (EHMM) for tissue‐ engineered skeletal muscle (TESM) to account for mechanical ...
Mizuki Nakamura +6 more
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Advanced Intelligent SystemsCultured muscle tissues have been integrated with artificial structures to construct biohybrid robots capable of diverse soft movements. However, most existing designs depend on artificial skeletons, limiting their flexibility and biomimetic potential ...
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Monolithic Biohybrid Flexure Mechanism Actuated by Bioengineered Skeletal Muscle Tissue
Advanced Intelligent SystemsSkeletal muscle tissue represents an attractive powering component for biohybrid robots, as traditional actuators used in the soft robotic context often rely on complex mechanisms and lack scalability at small dimensions.
Andrea Bartolucci +13 more
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Modular Living Muscle‐Based Biomimetic Actuators for Biosyncretic Robots
SmartBotBiosyncretic robots that integrate living materials present unique advantages for advancing robotic research. Compared with traditional robots, biosyncretic robots offer potential benefits such as higher energy efficiency and enhanced biocompatibility ...
Lianchao Yang +7 more
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A Printable Magnetic-Responsive Iron Oxide Nanoparticle (ION)-Gelatin Methacryloyl (GelMA) Ink for Soft Bioactuator/Robot Applications. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2023 The features or actuation behaviors of nature’s creatures provide concepts for the development of biomimetic soft bioactuators/robots with stimuli-responsive capabilities, design convenience, and environmental adaptivity in various fields.
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Isolation and maintenance-free culture of contractile myotubes from Manduca sexta embryos.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Skeletal muscle tissue engineering has the potential to treat tissue loss and degenerative diseases. However, these systems are also applicable for a variety of devices where actuation is needed, such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and robotics.
Amanda L Baryshyan +3 more
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Modular Tissue-Engineered Motor Units Featuring Spinal Motor Neurons Innervating Self-Assembled Myofiber Bundles. [PDF]
Macromol BiosciThe current study devised a methodology to biofabricate pre‐innervated, three‐dimensional bundled myofibers, as shown in this confocal micrograph depicting immunolabeled axons (red) and a multinucleated (blue) myofiber with well‐defined sarcomeres (green). ABSTRACT A motor unit is the functional unit of muscle contraction, consisting of a population of
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Electrolysis of selectively patterned Vorticella with pneumatic microchambers and electrodes
Mechanical Engineering Journal, 2020 Living machines are expected to expand the limits of silicon microtechnology. Vorticella convallaria is a ciliated protozoa and a promising linear actuator.
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Molecules, 2023 Biologically derived hydrogels have attracted attention as promising polymers for use in biomedical applications because of their high biocompatibility, biodegradability, and low toxicity.
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