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The mechanical system of the robot was equipped with small size rotary type actuators, link mechanisms and six legs to realize the ant-like switching behavior. The NNIC generates the driving waveform using synchronization phenomena such as biological neural networks. The driving waveform can operate the actuators of the MEMS microrobot directly. Therefore, the NNIC bare chip realizes the robot control without using any software programs or A\/D converters.  The microrobot performed forward and backward locomotion, and also changes direction by inputting an external single trigger pulse. The locomotion speed of the microrobot was  26.4 mm\/min when the step width was 0.88 mm. The power consumption of the system was 250 mWh when the room temperature was 298 K.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/robotics3030235","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,26]],"date-time":"2014-06-26T02:28:30Z","timestamp":1403749710000},"page":"235-246","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Neural Networks Integrated Circuit for Biomimetics  MEMS Microrobot"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7126-3025","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ken","family":"Saito","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, College of Science and Technology,  Nihon University, 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi-shi, Chiba 274-8501, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kazuaki","family":"Maezumi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuka","family":"Naito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tomohiro","family":"Hidaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kei","family":"Iwata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuki","family":"Okane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hirozumi","family":"Oku","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Minami","family":"Takato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fumio","family":"Uchikoba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, College of Science and Technology,  Nihon University, 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi-shi, Chiba 274-8501, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"303","article-title":"Microwave Energy Transmission System for Microrobot","volume":"E80-C","author":"Shibata","year":"1997","journal-title":"IEICE Trans. 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