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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Robot. 2017 Nov 22;2(12):eaap9281. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aap9281

Table 1.

Selected papers detailing the synthetic (S) or organic (O) components of devices incorporating biological components in the previously described categories: Structure (Str.), Actuation (Act.), Sensing (Sens.), Control (Con.). Relevant metrics for the devices are reported as available: velocity in body lengths (BL)/s for locomoting device and success rate (S.R.). Where success rate is the percentage of total trials in which the devices successfully accomplished the locomotion task tested (e.g. following a line of a certain length). Asterisks indicate inclusion of the reported device in allometric scaling analysis (See Section 4).

Paper Year Str. Act. Sens. Con. Body Length (BL) Vel. (BL/s) S.R. %

Kuwana (50) 1995 S S O S
Beer (149) 1998 S S S S
Webb (150) 2001 S S S S
Herr (46)* 2004 S O - S 120 cm 0.33
Xi (24) * 2005 S O - - 138 μm 0.27
Kim (151) 2006 S O - -
Feinberg (27) * 2007 S O - - 3–6 mm 0.008–0.045
Kim (25) * 2007 S O - - 2.5 mm 0.034
Sato (108, 109) 2010 S/O O O S/O 56
Takemura (19) 2010 O O - - 2 mm 0.003
Warwick (152) 2010 S S S S/O 46
Hayashi (80) 2011 S S S S/O 80
Chan (26) * 2012 S O - - 7 mm 0.033
Kim (98) * 2012 S/O S O O 10–20 μm 0.13–0.329
Latif (112) 2012 S/O O O S/O 10
Nawroth (32) * 2012 S O - - 2 mm 0.4–0.7
Zhu (114) * 2012 S/O O O S/O 380 ± 20 mm 0.046
Magdanz (107) * 2013 S/O S/O - S 300 μm 0.016–0.033
Cvetkovic (45) * 2014 S O - - 6 mm 0.026
Ijspeert (153) 2014 S S S S
Martinez (66) 2014 S S O S 96
Park (99) 2014 S/O O O O 80
Williams (31) * 2014 S O - - 2 mm 0.005
Barroso (100) * 2015 S/O O O O 2 um 3.5
Huang (63) 2015 S S O S/O 42
Sanchez (111) 2015 S/O O O S/O 70
Holley (28) * 2016 S/O O - - 9.2 mm 0.015
Li (97) 2016 S/O O O S/O 89.5
Park (33) * 2016 S O O S 14 mm 0.23
Webster (21) * 2016 O O - - 4 mm 0.003
Webster (48) * 2016 S/O O - - 4 cm 0.003