Bio-inspired ultra-thin microfluidics for soft sweat-activated batteries and skin electronics

Thin, Soft, Skin-Mounted Microfluidic Networks with Capillary Bursting Valves for Chrono-Sampling of Sweat.

Systems for time sequential capture of microliter volumes of sweat released from targeted regions of the skin offer the potential to enable analysis of temporal variations in electrolyte balance and biomarker concentration throughout a period of interest. Current methods that rely on absorbent pads taped to the skin do not offer the ease of use in sweat capture needed for quantitative tracking;...

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells. We describe a novel strategy to realize tensegrity structures using planar manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing. We use this strategy to develop icosahedron tensegrity structures with programmable variable stiffness that ca...

Bio-Inspired Vision Processor for Ultra-Fast Object Categorization

We present a scalable hardware architecture to implement large-scale bio-inspired synthetic vision systems. The system is a fully digital implementation of a modular vision engine that can perform real-time detection, recognition and segmentation of mega-pixel images. We present performance comparisons between software versions of the vision system executing on CPU and GPU machines, and show th...

Bio-Engineered Skin and Soft Tissue Substitutes

When Policy Topic is covered Breast reconstructive surgery using allogeneic acellular dermal matrix products* (i.e., AlloDerm®, AlloMaxTM, DermaMatrixTM, FlexHD®, GraftJacket®) may be considered medically necessary,  when there is insufficient tissue expander or implant coverage by the pectoralis major muscle and additional coverage is required,  when there is viable but compromised or thin p...

Bio-Electronics and Bio-sensors