| Budget Amount *help |
¥20,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥16,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥13,390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,090,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project achieved two types of robots driven by biological muscle cells. First, the robot is consisting of both a mechanical skeletal system and biological muscle actuators. This robot can swim under water by two real muscles. Actually, each actuator is consisting of a plantaris-longus muscle and a sciatic nerve taken from an African clawed frog. Second, micro scale robot has been developed driven by cardiomyocytes, which is taken from primary culture of neonatal rats.
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