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Project Definition: Biohybrid Robotics for Healthcare
Imagine a world where living creatures cohabitate with us, not just as pets or wildlife, but as collaborative partners in healthcare. A world where biohybrid robots—part living tissue, part synthetic design—help us heal, prevent disease, and enhance well-being. This is the vision behind the Biodesign Framework for Biohybrid Robots.
What is This Project About?
This project involves developing a structured framework for designing and creating biohybrid robots that merge living biological components with synthetic structures. By combining principles from biomimicry, generative design, and synthetic biology, this framework will provide tools, materials, and methodologies for building new living systems that address healthcare challenges.
Additionally, this project involves developingteractive software using Game Maker. This software will allow users to mix different living beings' parts, categorizing organs, tissues, muscles, organ systems, DNA, and entire organisms based on their biome and survival context. AI and specialized databases may be integrated to enhance this process.
Who is This For?
The Biodesign Framework is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, including designers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and scientists. The goal is to create a research and development company after the completion of the master's degree, focusing on real-world healthcare applications of biohybrid robotics.
What Makes This Approach Unique?
Unlike traditional biohybrid robotics, which often focuses on integrating technology with biology in isolated ways, this project takes a systemic approach. It categorizes different biological components from various organisms and explores how they can be merged to create entirely new life forms. These creatures will not only exist as functional healthcare tools but as symbiotic partners in human well-being. The interactive software will act as a design methodology and program to facilitate a more rational and structured way for biodesigners to develop new ideas.
Real-World Impact
The ultimate goal is to revolutionize healthcare by developing biohybrid robots capable of performing life-saving functions. For example, one proposed biohybrid robot is designed to prevent stroke complications by navigating blood vessels and expanding blocked veins. This is just one of many potential applications where living, adaptable systems could outperform traditional medical devices.
Challenges and Solutions
One of the main challenges in developing biohybrid robots is acquiring the right biological materials and growing them under controlled conditions for testing. To address this, the strategy involves collaborating with institutions across Barcelona to develop specialized modules. These modules can be tested independently before being integrated into a fully functional biohybrid robot.
Another challenge is ensuring that biodesign remains a structured and accessible field. The interactive software aims to tackle this by providing a guided platform that categorizes biological components and suggests viable combinations based on functional and environmental parameters.
Next Steps
The project is currently in development, with connections being established in Barcelona’s research and innovation ecosystem. Moving forward, the focus will be on refining the framework, securing partnerships, and conducting early-stage experiments to validate the potential of biohybrid robotics in healthcare. The interactive software will also be developed and tested as a tool to support and standardize biohybrid design practices.
By blending biology with technology in a deeply integrated way, this project aims to shape a future where biohybrid creatures become essential allies in medicine, redefining how we approach health and care, while also providing a structured methodology for future biohybrid innovation.
The Biodesign Framework for Biohybrid Robots is a project dedicated to developing a structured methodology for merging biological and synthetic components to create innovative living systems. By integrating biomimicry, generative design, and synthetic biology, this framework provides tools and processes to design biohybrid robots with real-world healthcare applications. A key component is an interactive software built in Game Maker, which categorizes biological parts—organs, tissues, DNA, and entire organisms—based on biome and functional context, allowing biodesigners to experiment with new life forms systematically. This project aims to establish a research and development company that advances healthcare solutions while redefining human coexistence with biohybrid organisms. Through collaborations with institutions in Barcelona, it seeks to refine modular testing approaches and ensure biohybrid innovation is both accessible and scientifically rigorous.
A framework merging biology and design to create biohybrid robots and interactive tools for healthcare innovation.
Biohybrid robotics framework merging biology, design, and healthcare.
