Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics
Excerpts: Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can
strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to perform and
survive in a world characterized by rapid changes, high uncertainty, indefinite richness, and limited
availability of information. Industrial robots, in contrast, operate in highly controlled environments with no
or very little uncertainty. Although many challenges remain, concepts from biologically inspired
(bio-inspired) robotics will eventually enable researchers to engineer machines for the real world that
possess at least some of the desirable properties of biological organisms, such as adaptivity,
robustness, versatility, and agility.
Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics, Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella,
Fumiya Iida, 2007/11/16, Science : 1088-1093.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5853/1088
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Excerpts: Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can
strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to perform and
survive in a world characterized by rapid changes, high uncertainty, indefinite richness, and limited
availability of information. Industrial robots, in contrast, operate in highly controlled environments with no
or very little uncertainty. Although many challenges remain, concepts from biologically inspired
(bio-inspired) robotics will eventually enable researchers to engineer machines for the real world that
possess at least some of the desirable properties of biological organisms, such as adaptivity,
robustness, versatility, and agility.
Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics, Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella,
Fumiya Iida, 2007/11/16, Science : 1088-1093.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5853/1088
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