An all-optical multidirectional mechano-sensor inspired by biologically mechano-sensitive hair sensilla

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Mechano-sensitive hair-like sensilla (MSHS) have an ingenious and compact three-dimensional structure and have evolved widely in living organisms to perceive multidirectional mechanical signals. Nearly all MSHS are iontronic or electronic, including their biomimetic counterparts. Here, an all-optical mechano-sensor mimicking MSHS is prototyped and integrated based on a thin-walled glass microbubble as a flexible whispering-gallery-mode resonator. The minimalist integrated device has a good directionality of 32.31 dB in the radial plane of the micro-hair and can detect multidirectional displacements and forces as small as 70 nm and 0.9 μN, respectively. The device can also detect displacements and forces in the axial direction of the micro-hair as small as 2.29 nm and 3.65 μN, respectively, and perceive different vibrations. This mechano-sensor works well as a real-time, directional mechano-sensory whisker in a quadruped cat-type robot, showing its potential for innovative mechano-transduction, artificial perception, and robotics applications.

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E-Artikel

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

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Nature communications - 15(2024), 1 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 2906

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Yuxiang [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Zhihe [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Xuyang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zhenmin [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Wen-Fei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shixiang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yun-Lu [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiang [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 08.04.2024

Date Revised 08.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41467-024-47299-0

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NLM370649966