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Soft Robots: Electrically Driven Microengineered Bioinspired Soft Robots (Adv. Mater. 10/2018)

Su Ryon Shin, Bianca Migliori, Beatrice Miccoli, Yi‐Chen Li, Pooria Mostafalu, Jungmok Seo, Serena Mandla, Alessandro Enrico, Silvia Antona, Ram Sabarish, Ting Zheng, Lorenzo Pirrami, Kaizhen Zhang, Yu Shrike Zhang, Kai‐tak Wan, Danilo Demarchi, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Ali Khademhosseini

Advanced Materials· Volume 30· Issue 10
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Abstract

A bioinspired soft robot is designed by mimicking the shape and biomechanical model of a batoid fish, as described by Su Ryon Shin, Ali Khademhosseini, and co-workers in article number 1704189. The biomimetic structure is fabricated by self-actuating cardiac muscles on a hierarchically structured hydrogel scaffold with flexible gold microelectrodes. The robot shows controllable actuating motion aligned with the direction of the contractile force of the cardiomyocytes by localized electrical stimulation via flexible microelectrodes.
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Polymers

OpenAlex topics: Micro and Nano Robotics · Advanced Materials and Mechanics · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

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Affiliations

Biomaterials Innovation Research Center Division of Engineering in Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston MA 02139 USA

Harvard‐MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet 17177 Stockholm Sweden

Center for Biomaterials Biomedical Research Institute Korea Institute of Science and Technology Seoul 02792 Korea

Department of Micro and Nanosystems KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Politecnico di Torino Torino 10129 Italy

Department of Electrical Engineering Institute for Printing University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Fribourg 1705 Switzerland

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Northeastern University Boston MA 02115 USA

Center for Nanotechnology King Abdulaziz University Jeddah 21569 Saudi Arabia

Department of Bioindustrial Technologies College of Animal Bioscience and Technology Konkuk University Seoul 143–701 Republic of Korea

Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of California‐Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA

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