Wireless bioelectronic control architectures for muscle-powered biohybrid robotic systems
Hiroyuki Tetsuka, Minoru Hirano · 2026
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Description
Hiroyuki Tetsuka and Minoru Hirano lay out design rules for wireless control of robots powered by living muscle, in a 2026 paper. These biohybrid machines move with engineered tissue, but steering them without wires has lacked a shared engineering frame.
The authors treat control as a joint design problem spanning signal delivery, sensing, feedback, and keeping tissue alive. They compare three strategies: wireless electric pulses, wireless light-based pulses, and direct nerve-muscle links. Each works best in a different regime. The tissue-device boundary emerges as the key bottleneck in all three. The paper closes by weighing future controllers, from plain electronics to living nerve cultures.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hiroyuki Tetsuka, Minoru Hirano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |