Room temperature operable autonomously moving bio-microrobot powered by insect dorsal vessel tissue

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Akiyama, Yoshitake ^a,b   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a,b   Iwabuchi, Kikuo ^b   Morishima, Keisuke ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DORSAL VESSEL TISSUE; FORCE; INCHWORM; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYPOD MICROROBOT; ROBOTICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VASCULAR TISSUE; VELOCITY; WORM;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; ROBOTICS; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863812081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038274     Document Type: Article

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