Drawing upon Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory,this paper argues that the bicycle can be conceived as a cyborg extension of body and identity which transcended its mechanical essence to become an integral co-partner for ...
the National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFB1313501);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LZ24F020003);National Natural Science Foundation of China(T2293723);the Key R&D program of Zhejiang Province(2021C03003);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.226-2022-00051).
The precise movement speed regulation is a key factor to improve the control effect and efficiency of the cyborg rats.However,the current stimulation techniques cannot realize the graded control of the speed.In this s...
In the version of this article initially published,the subfigures in the Fig.3 were in the wrong order and has been corrected on the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education(RG140/20)。
By leveraging their high mobility and small size,insects have been combined with microcontrollers to build up cyborg insects for various practical applications.Unfortunately,all current cyborg insects rely on implante...
A pigeon robot is an ideal experimental animal for research in flying animal robots.The majority of current research publications have entailed electrical stimulation of the motor nuclei to regulate movement forcibly,...
supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant number 21K18700;JST(Moonshot R&D)(grant number JPMJMS223A)。
Cockroaches can traverse unknown obstacle-terrain,self-right on the ground and climb above the obstacle.However,they have limited motion,such as less activity in light/bright areas and lower temperatures.Therefore,the...
supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under its Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) (no.JP18H05469);Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)under its Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-driven R&D (A-STEP) (no.A3015021R);JST under its JST-Mirai Program (no.JPMJMI21I1).
Cyborg insects have been proposed for applications such as urban search and rescue.Body-mounted energy-harvesting devices are critical for expanding the range of activity and functionality of cyborg insects.However,th...
supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF0501600);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1913601);the Major Science and Technology Projects of Anhui Province(202103a05020004);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M693079);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK2100000020);the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration(MSV202219);the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as Part of World-Class Research Center Program:Advanced Digital Technologies(075-15-2020-903);the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology,Zhejiang University;China(ICT2022B42)。
Underwater robot technology has shown impressive results in applications such as underwater resource detection.For underwater applications that require extremely high flexibility,robots cannot replace skills that requ...
supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education(RG140/20);SPring-8 in Japan with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute(Nos.2015A1502,2015B1449,2016A1169,2016B1492,2017A1087,2017B1464,2018A1087,and 2018B1261).
While engineers put lots of effort,resources,and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles(MAVs)that fly like insects,insects themselves are the real masters of flight.What if we would use living insect as p...
The authors wish to acknowledge:a Tufts Collaborates Award(to B.P.T.),a Tufts Research Advancement Fund award(to B.R T.),a Tufts Summer Scholars award(to A.A.R.),a Department of Defense Grant W81XWH-16-1-0304(to L.D.B.);American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid Award 16GRNT27760100(to L.D.B.).Portions of the TOC graphic,Figs.1 and 2 were created with BioRendeccom.
Effective strategies in cardiac tissue engineering require matrices that recapitulate the mechanical,topographic and electrical cues present in the native extracellular matrix.In this review,we discuss recent efforts ...