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Biohybrid Actuators for Soft Robotics: Challenges in Scaling Up

Actuators, 2020
Living systems have evolved to survive in a wide range of environments and safely interact with other objects and organisms. Thus, living systems have been the source of inspiration for many researchers looking to apply their mechanics and unique ...
Victoria Webster-Wood, Carmel Majidi, Seung Hwan Ko   +2 more
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Contractile and Tensile Measurement of Molecular Artificial Muscles for Biohybrid Robotics. [PDF]

Cyborg Bionic Syst
A printable artificial muscle assembled from biomolecular motors, which we have recently developed, showed great potential in overcoming the design limitations of conventional biohybrid robots as a new bio-actuator.
Wang Y, Uesugi K, Nitta T, Hiratsuka Y, Morishima K.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Biohybrid Soft Robots, E-Skin, and Bioimpedance Potential to Build Up Their Applications: A Review

IEEE Access, 2020
Soft Robotics is a new approach towards better human-robot interaction and biomimicry in the robotics field. Its integration with biological materials (Biohybrid soft robotics) is one of the topics being focused on in the soft robotics research in the ...
Mostafa Mousa, Mahmood Abdallah Saleh, Ahmed G Radwan   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Biohybrid living robotics: A comprehensive review of recent advances, technological innovation, and future prospects. [PDF]

Npj Robot
Biohybrid robotics combines living components with synthetic materials to create adaptable, responsive robots. This review focuses on bottom-up, tissue-based biohybrid robots-Walkers, Swimmers, Grippers, Pumps, and emerging eBiobots, which use living ...
Garmroudi A, Tushar MAK, Liu C, Li Z.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bioelectricity harvesting from microorganism: review of recent advancements in utilizing the bioelectric properties of fungi for powering small-scale robotic systems. [PDF]

Front Fungal Biol
The growing need for sustainable energy sources has led to the exploration of bioelectricity generation from microorganisms, with fungi showing considerable potential for powering small-scale robotic systems.
Islam RU, Chantal AAK, Islam A, Somtochukwu OS, Poudyal RR, Wesseh CB, Faiyaz OI, Kong X, Wei X.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The biohybrid autonomous robots (BAR): a feasibility of implementation. [PDF]

Front Robot AI
Limited battery capacity poses a challenge for autonomous robots. We believe that instead of relying solely on electric motors and batteries, basically Conventional Autonomous Robots (CAR), one way to address this challenge may be to develop Biohybrid ...
Kuplinov GN.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Ocean monitoring is essential for understanding climate change and marine ecosystem dynamics, yet achieving comprehensive global coverage remains a challenge in oceanography.
Rutledge KM, Colin SP, Costello JH, Yoder N, Anuszczyk SR, Sutherland KR, Gemmell BL, Dabiri JO.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Yeast-Driven and Bioimpedance-Sensitive Biohybrid Soft Robots. [PDF]

Cyborg Bionic Syst
Biohybrid robots integrate biological components with synthetic materials to harness the unique capabilities of living systems for robotic functions. This study focuses on leveraging yeast fermentation dynamics to enable actuation and sensing in soft ...
Soliman M, Forbes F, Damian DD.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Non-genetic neuromodulation with graphene optoelectronic actuators for disease models, stem cell maturation, and biohybrid robotics. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Light can serve as a tunable trigger for neurobioengineering technologies, enabling probing, control, and enhancement of brain function with unmatched spatiotemporal precision.
Molokanova E, Zhou T, Vasupal P, Cherkas VP, Narute P, Ferraz MSA, Reiss M, Almenar-Queralt A, Chaldaiopoulou G, de Souza JS, Hemati H, Downey F, Olajide OO, Thörn Perez C, Puppo F, Mesci P, Pfaff SL, Kireev D, Muotri AR, Savchenko A.   +19 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Biohybrid Tendons Enhance the Power-to-Weight Ratio and Modularity of Muscle-Powered Robots. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Biohybrid robots powered by tissue engineered skeletal muscle have historically relied on architectures in which muscle actuators are placed directly on skeletons, thus limiting the accessible design space for such machines.
Castro N, Heisser R, Bawa M, Aymon B, Wu S, Marschner A, Kohli S, Bu A, Rosado L, Culpepper M, Zhao X, Raman R.   +11 more
europepmc   +2 more sources