Abstract
This paper describes an insect muscle-powered autonomous microrobot (iPAM) which can work long-term at room temperature without any maintenance. The iPAM consisting of a DV tissue and a frame was designed on the basis of a finite element method simulation and fabricated. The iPAM moved autonomously using spontaneous contractions of a whole insect dorsal vessel (DV) and the moving velocity was accelerated temporally by adding insect hormone. These results suggest that the insect DV has a higher potential for being a biological microactuator than other biological cell-based materials. Insect dorsal vessel (DV) tissue seems well suited for chemically regulatable microactuators due to its environmental robustness and low maintenance.
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