| Budget Amount *help |
¥96,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥74,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥22,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥18,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥18,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥18,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥18,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥20,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,710,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Focusing on the proboscis of nemertea structure as a biological torus structure that performs branching and extending, and which realizes higher-order functions with responsiveness and reversibility not possible with plant roots, we conducted R&D in collaboration with biologists and succeeded in creating the principle of a mechanical model that enables branching, returning, and steering movements, as well as in realizing the actual device. In the process of this research, we also created various mechanical elements, such as a pressurized soft-rigid switching element and a scaly mechanism that combines softness and rigidity to protect the body from the outside environment. In addition, the concept of freely constructable branches was further advanced, and research on a robotic blood vessel mechanism that can actively repair itself even if it has wounds was carried out, and an active self-repair function by mixing two liquids was successfully realized.
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