AIMC Topic: Artificial Organs

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Synaptic Iontronic Devices for Brain-Mimicking Functions: Fundamentals and Applications.

ACS applied bio materials
Inspired by the information transmission mechanism in the central nervous systems of life, synapse-mimicking devices have been designed and fabricated for the purpose of breaking the bottleneck of von Neumann architecture and realizing the constructi...

Future development of artificial organs related with cutting edge emerging technology and their regulatory assessment: PMDA's perspective.

Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs
Future development of innovative artificial organs is closely related with cutting edge emerging technology. These technologies include brain machine or computer interface, organs made by three dimensional bioprinting, organs designed from induced-pl...

Flexible Neuromorphic Electronics for Computing, Soft Robotics, and Neuroprosthetics.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Flexible neuromorphic electronics that emulate biological neuronal systems constitute a promising candidate for next-generation wearable computing, soft robotics, and neuroprosthetics. For realization, with the achievement of simple synaptic behavior...

Artificial Sensory Memory.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sensory memory, formed at the beginning while perceiving and interacting with the environment, is considered a primary source of intelligence. Transferring such biological concepts into electronic implementation aims at achieving perceptual intellige...

Realizing the potential of dielectric elastomer artificial muscles.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Soft robotics represents a new set of technologies aimed at operating in natural environments and near the human body. To interact with their environment, soft robots require artificial muscles to actuate movement. These artificial muscles need to be...

Bioinspired 3D Printable Soft Vacuum Actuators for Locomotion Robots, Grippers and Artificial Muscles.

Soft robotics
Continued technological progress in robotic systems has led to more applications where robots and humans operate in close proximity and even physical contact in some cases. Soft robots, which are made of highly compliant and deformable materials, pro...

Wet-Spun Biofiber for Torsional Artificial Muscles.

Soft robotics
The demands for new types of artificial muscles continue to grow and novel approaches are being enabled by the advent of new materials and novel fabrication strategies. Self-powered actuators have attracted significant attention due to their ability ...

An intelligent artificial throat with sound-sensing ability based on laser induced graphene.

Nature communications
Traditional sound sources and sound detectors are usually independent and discrete in the human hearing range. To minimize the device size and integrate it with wearable electronics, there is an urgent requirement of realizing the functional integrat...

Compact and low-cost humanoid hand powered by nylon artificial muscles.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper focuses on design, fabrication and characterization of a biomimetic, compact, low-cost and lightweight 3D printed humanoid hand (TCP Hand) that is actuated by twisted and coiled polymeric (TCP) artificial muscles. The TCP muscles were rece...

Knitting and weaving artificial muscles.

Science advances
A need exists for artificial muscles that are silent, soft, and compliant, with performance characteristics similar to those of skeletal muscle, enabling natural interaction of assistive devices with humans. By combining one of humankind's oldest tec...