Re: BioMEMS seminar "Emergent Functionality of Cellular Buildup Wet Robotics" tomorrow

Hi All,

I'm sorry for my fool mistake but seminar is starting at "Allen 101",
not "Allen 101X".

Ken

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:57:28 -0800
Kentaro Iwami <iwami@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Prof. Keisuke Morishima, former SNF labmember from Osaka University will visit Stanford tomorrow.
> He is an authority of BioMEMS and will be speaking "Emergent Functionality of Cellular Buildup Wet
> Robotics", including MEMS-fabricated muscle-powered bioactuator and biochemical energy source.
> I strongly recommend to join it!
>
> Title: Emergent Functionality of Cellular Buildup Wet Robotics
> Author: Keisuke Morishima, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
> Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, JAPAN
> Place Allen 101X, 11/10/2011 (Thu), 1:30pm-2:30pm
> Abstract:
> We have demonstrated an environmentally robust hybrid (biotic?abiotic) robotic system that uses
> living components, called "Cellular Build Up Wet Nano Robotics". Our group has already presented
> a bioactuator using rat heart muscle cells, but it is difficult to keep rat heart muscle cells
> contracting spontaneously without maintaining the culture conditions carefully. By contrast, insect
> cells are much robust over a range of culture conditions (temperature, osmotic pressure and pH)
> compared to mammalian cells. Therefore, insect cells are more practical use of a hybrid wet robotic
> system, and they can be driven without precise environmental control. From this point of view, to
> utilize robust biological components as a functional systems and self assembly process and their
> emergent functionality, and to build up such a soft and wet machines will lead us an innovative
> fundamental change and produce a new principle and design to future man-made systems. We
> demonstrate the example of a micro bioactuator and mechanical systems driven by biochemical energy.
> This novel muscle-powered bioactuator successfully show autonomous beating at room temperature for
> a long time without maintenance. Experimental results suggest the possibility of constructing an
> environmentally robust hybrid wet robotic system with living components and open up a new science
> and technology, biorobotic approach, medical, environmental monitoring, agriculture and industrial
> application.
>
>
>
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> Kentaro IWAMI, Ph. D.
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>
> Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering,
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