TELESCIENCE TESTBED EXPERIMENTS FOR BIOMEDICAL STUDIES - FERTILIZATION POTENTIAL RECORDING OF AMPHIBIAN EGGS USING TELE-MANIPULATION UNDER STEREOSCOPIC VISION

The telescience testbed experiments were carried out to test and inves tigate the tele-manipulation techniques in the intracellular potential recording of amphibian eggs. Implementation of telescience testbed wa s set up in the two separated laboratories of the Tsukuba Space center of NASDA, which were connected by tele-communication links. Manipulat ors respective for a microelectrode and a sample stage of microscope w ere moved by computers, of which command signals were transmitted from a computer in a remote control room. The computer in the control room was operated by an investigator (PI) who controlled the movement of e ach manipulator remotely. A stereoscopic vision of the microscope imag e were prepared by using a head mounted display (HMD) and were indispe nsable to the intracellular single cell recording. The fertilization p otential of amphibian eggs was successfully obtained through the remot e operating system.