Quality of life declines dramatically when the five senses or bodily functions are partially lost due to age, accident, or illness. Although braces and monitoring devices that compensate for reduced functioning, for example, have been commercialized, issues remain from the perspective of improving wearability and reproducibility. With the goal of dramatically improving compatibility with living organisms and the reproducibility of human senses, we aim to create sensors that employ the high-speed information processing and transmission systems possessed by nerves, as well as biological function amplification and restoration devices that connect nerve cells with semiconductor devices.
Concept of biological amplification and restoration using artificial nerve patterning and soft actuators