Movie S2.

Optical stimulation of muscle rings in exercise study. Active tension force output in response to optical stimulation is calculated using a Kelvin-Voigt viscoelasticity model that relates bio-bot skeleton deformation to muscle force produced. Numerical results are presented in Fig. 4B.

Optogenetic skeletal muscle-powered adaptive biological machines

Ritu Raman, Caroline Cvetkovic, Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Randall J. Platt, Parijat Sengupta, Roger D. Kamm, and Rashid Bashir

PNAS. 2016. 113:3497-3502 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516139113