@inproceedings{4c658703387645efb9e0d81cd90750f7,
title = "ATP-DRIVEN MUSCLE INTEGRATED MICROROBOT ACTUATED BY TRACTION OF ACTOMYOSIN-COLLAGEN HIBRID HYDROGEL",
abstract = "We propose an elastomeric microrobot actuated by ATP-driven biological traction of actomyosin. Our robot is composed of a PDMS thin film part as a body and an actomyosin-embedded collagen hydrogel part as a linear motor. The actomyosin drives the hydrogel linear motor by the hydrolysis of ATP. This actomyosin linear motor could repeatably contract by adding ATP and stretching similar to the driving mechanism of our body. By combining the linear motor part and PDMS actuator part, we succeeded in driving the whole device by the traction force of actomyosin. The traction force generated by the linear motor was estimated from the deformation of the PDMS body. We believe that our device would be a new approach to apply biological motor for micro actuators.",
keywords = "Actomyosin, Bioactuator, Force measurement, Soft actuator",
author = "Kenjiro Kohno and Yuichi Hiratsuka and Hiroaki Onoe",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (A) (20H00619). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 MicroTAS 2021 - 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences. All rights reserved.; 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2021 ; Conference date: 10-10-2021 Through 14-10-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
series = "MicroTAS 2021 - 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences",
publisher = "Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society",
pages = "619--620",
booktitle = "MicroTAS 2021 - 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences",
}