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Bio-Inspired Microsystems Lab
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A lab that uses microfabrication to build microrobots and cell culture devices as flexible as living organisms.
AboutAbout the lab
Building electronic circuits and mechanical systems like living things.
The Bio-Inspired Microsystems Lab conducts exploratory research on fabrication technologies and applications of microdevices, based on microfabrication and Bio-MEMS technologies.
The lab develops fabrication techniques for microrobots that are as flexible and durable as biological organs, devices for culturing and analyzing cells in isolation at high density, and self-healing devices.
In addition to international joint research with UCSD in the US, the lab collaborates with biology labs, research institutions such as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and companies, and also works with the Hayashi Lab in the same division.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Sassa Lab."
Key terms
- Bio-MEMS
- Biocompatible microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Tiny machines made by microfabrication.
- Microrobot
- A tiny robot made all at once by microfabrication. The research looks ahead to manipulation at the cellular level.
- Self-healing device
- A device given the ability to repair damaged parts by itself. It is one of the devices the lab is developing.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to build electronic circuits and mechanical systems that are like living things. It expects that medicine and life sciences will advance to large-scale direct manipulation at the cellular level and batch treatment of individual cells, and to make this possible it works on forming microrobot structures all at once through microfabrication.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Bio-Inspired Microsystems Lab consist of faculty, master's and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2025
- Associate ProfessorFumihiro Sassa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Epson micro flying robot - Flickr - yuhui” yuhui from Singapore, Singapore / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Biocompatible microrobots and chips: “Micro-chips wafer” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
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