Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
The goal of this research is to develop a novel manufacturing method for soft robots. In this article, we develop an initial prototype of hydrogel that is made from fish myofibrillar proteins. It is known that a kind of elastic hydrogel can be produced by adding salt to screw-pressed fresh muscles of animals and heating it. This phenomenon has long been exploited in the field of food manufacturing, and a wide variety of fish jelly products has been made from whitefish paste that is high in the myofibrillar proteins. A few manufacturing method such as a manual 3D printing are proposed by focusing on a mechanical property of the whitefish paste that has viscosity and shape retaining ability even before curing process by heating.
