Room Temperature Operable Autonomously Moving Bio-Microrobot Powered by Insect Dorsal Vessel Tissue

Soft Robotics for Chemists

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Fabrication and Evaluation of Reconstructed Cardiac Tissue and Its Application to Bio-actuated Microdevices

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Electrical stimulation of cultured lepidopteran dorsal vessel tissue: an experiment for development of bioactuators

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Optogenetic control of heart muscle in vitro and in vivo

(2010) Tobias Bruegmann et al.   NATURE METHODS

Control of myotube contraction using electrical pulse stimulation for bio-actuator

(2009) Ken-ichi Yamasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

Long-term and room temperature operable bioactuator powered by insect dorsal vessel tissue

(2008) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Culture of insect cells contracting spontaneously; research moving toward an environmentally robust hybrid robotic system

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