Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans

• DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abe3950
• Publication Date: 2021-06-30T19:11:00Z
• Authors: Xianke Dong; Sina Kheiri; Yangning Lu; Zhaoyi Xu; Mei Zhen; Xinyu Liu
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Muscles; Equipment Design; Robotics; Models, Biological; Biomechanical Phenomena; Animals, Genetically Modified; Optogenetics; 03 medical and health sciences; Smart Materials; Biomimetic Materials; Biomimetics; Animals; Computer Simulation; Caenorhabditis elegans; Locomotion

The combination of microrobotics and optogenetics enables closed-loop locomotion control of a living nematode worm.