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Biorobotics
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Biorobotics
• Uses solutions developed by nature to solve engineering problems
• Help making new kinds of robots• Makes us understand better how biological
systems really work
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Bio-inspired and biomimetic robots
• Bio-inspired robots – reproduce the results of biological phenomena without necessarily reproducing the underlying working principles
• Biomimetic robots – reproduce also the means of getting the results
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Types of bio-inspiration
5.5
• Bio-inspired morphologies• Bio-inspired sensors• Bio-inspired actuators• Bio-inpired control• Bio-inspired energetics• Bio-inspired robot teams• Bio-hybrid robots
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Bio-inspired morphologies
5.5
• Antropomorphic and zoomorphic robots
Ren Ti
Kismet
Paro
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Reconfigurable robots
HydraConro
Satoshi robot
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Bio-inspired locomotion
• Walking
Raibert’s hopping robot RobonovaAsimo
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Bio-inspired locomotion
5.5
• Swimming
TUT Center for Biorobotics University of Essex
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Bio-inpired locomotion
5.5
• Crawling• Flying• Jumping• Climbing Dr. Gavin Miller snake robots
University of Maryland
NASA JPL hopping robot
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Bio-inspired sensing
VisionAuditionSmellTasteTouchInternal sensors
5.5
chiroping
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Bio-inspired Control Architectures
• Behaviour based robots• Learning robots• Developing robots• Evolving robots
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Bio-inspired energetic autonomy
Eco-Bot II, Bristol Robotics Laboratory
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Biohybrid robots
• A robot equipped with silk-moth antennaes
Soichiro Tsuda, Kobe University
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Biohybrid robots
• A robot powered by frog muscles
Herr, Dennis, MIT Biomechanics Lab