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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