Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray
Abstract
A bio-inspired swimming robot that mimics a ray fish can be guided by light. Park et al. built a 1/10th-scale version of a ray fish with a microfabricated gold skeleton and a rubber body powered by rat heart muscle cells. The cardiomyocytes were genetically engineered to respond to light cues, so that the undulatory movements propelling the robot through water would follow a light source.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 08, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.aaf4292
Entities
People
- Alexander Cho
- Andrew K. Capulli
- Ben M Maoz
- Erin L. Blevins
- Francesco S. Pasqualini
- George V. Lauder
- Hongyan Yuan
- Jeong-woo Choi
- Johan U Lind
- Karl Deisseroth
- Kevin Kit Parker
- Kyung Soo Park
- Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
- Mattia Gazzola
- Patrick H. Campbell
- Ragu Vijaykumar
- Seungkuk Ahn
- Shirley Park
- Stephanie Dauth
- Sung-Jin Park
- Valentina Di Santo
Organizations
- Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Harvard University
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Sogang University
- Stanford University
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- United States Army Research Laboratory
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering