#137 Specail Edition : Bio-machine
Since its starting in 2001, the 1st year of the 21st century, the Low Cost Automation Technology Course has reached the Vol. 400. Our environment has changed largely in these 8 years. The investment monies have flowed into oil and other resources, the automotive society has changed with soaring gasoline prices, hybrid automobiles have resurfaced in popularity, and further advent of electric and hydrogen fueled cars are awaited.
If the first decade of the 21st century is denoted with a representative technology reformation of gasoline combustion energy and rolling friction to clean energy and rolling friction, bio-mechanisms would be in utilization by the last decade of the 21st century.
- [Fig.1] is a bacteria.
- [Fig.2] is an explanation of this bacteria's motion method where it moves in swimming-like motion with its rotating filaments.
- [Fig.3] mechanically explains the bacteria's cellular structure of rotating filaments.
- It has a similar structure with automated machinery: Bearing=Rings, Coupling=Hook, Drive shaft=Filament, Enclosure=Membrane would represent structural components of today's automated machinery.
Problems such as friction and wear may not present any issues on life problem as they do today due to its biochemical effects.
source: | 1) MICROBIOLOGY, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. |

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