1. Construction of a biohybrid robot with an antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues.
Construction of a biohybrid robot with an antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues. (A) Illustrations of a biohybrid robot with an antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues and bidirectional motion of the biohybrid robot by selective contractions of the skeletal muscle tissues. (B) An image of a myoblast-laden hydrogel sheet shaped with a PDMS stamp. (C) Construction of an antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues by stacking and culturing the myoblast-laden hydrogel sheets on the skeleton in symmetrical positions. (D) Image of the biohybrid robot with the antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues. Scale bars, 2 mm (B) and 5 mm (D).
Yuya Morimoto et al. Sci. Robotics 2018;3:eaat4440
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