A bio-inspired approach towards the development of soft amoeboid microrobots

Matteo Piovanelli; Toshinori Fujie; Barbara Mazzolai; Lucia Beccai

doi:10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290768

A bio-inspired approach towards the development of soft amoeboid microrobots

Matteo Piovanelli^*, Toshinori Fujie, Barbara Mazzolai, Lucia Beccai

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Innovative soft robots can be developed at the microscale by taking inspiration from the biophysical descriptions of amoeboids. In this study, we fabricated active hydrogels as possible structural and functional materials in order to achieve locomotion at the microscale. The prepared hydrogels cointain a moiety that exhibits color changes through the reversible redox of ruthenium complexes, driven by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Such chemical oscillation in the hydrogel interact with the polymer matrix to cause mechanical ones, that can be exploited as means of actuation and possibly to obtain locomotion. Furthermore, in this study the self-oscillating hydrogels are compared with biological materials to validate their choice in the development of a self-propelled stimuli-responsive microrobot inspired by amoeboids.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
Pages	612-616
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290768
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2012 4th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2012 - Rome Duration: 2012 Jun 24 → 2012 Jun 27

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Other	2012 4th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2012
City	Rome
Period	12/6/24 → 12/6/27

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Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

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Piovanelli, M, Fujie, T, Mazzolai, B & Beccai, L 2012, A bio-inspired approach towards the development of soft amoeboid microrobots. in Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics., 6290768, pp. 612-616, 2012 4th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2012, Rome, 12/6/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290768

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