Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
We aim to develop a micro robot with skeletal muscle cells as a driving source. In order to design a muscle cell robot, it is necessary to appropriately set the arrangement and direction of tissues, cells, and collagens to as scaffold protein. In this study, we intend to control the shape and internal structure of a muscle cell robot by self-organization of muscle cells with geometric constraints, pins and molds. We confirmed that utilizing of pins and the mold contributes to the orientation of the gel during cell differentiation.
