Biomimetic Robots: A Photo Gallery

Roland Piquepaille writes "Once again, technology is imitating nature with a new class of biologically inspired robots called "Biomimetic Robots." In this very long article, IEEE Computer Magazine looks at several projects currently underway. All these projects will have practical applications a few years from now. They include robotic lobsters for underwater mine research or flying insect-based robots for future spatial missions. Other projects are about cricket-inspired robots to be used in rescue missions or scorpion-like robots to be deployed in hostile environments for humans. and of course, there are the now famous and robust "sprawling" robots based on cockroaches. For more information, read the whole very well documented article. Or read this summary for a photo gallery and direct links to all the projects."

Comments

Wow

[metlin]

"We are not trying to 'copy a cockroach.' This would be impractical. And besides, who would want one?"

About bloody time that roboticists realized that it's easier to treat robots as independent entities of research, rather than model them on what we know about this world.

And oh, about BLOODY time we have a Roland Piquepaille section. Tiresome to keep bumping into his stuff on every other article.

Back Ground information

[Mstrgeek]

Here are some good site with some more information anout this type of robotics hope you enjoy

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/

http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/

http://www.computer.org/computer/homepage/0904/p au lson/r9048.pdf

Above is a PDF with good information

Roland the Plogger again

[Animats]

This is getting really annoying. Especially since he doesn't actually know anything about the subject.

For a much better source of articles, see What's New, by Bob Park from the American Physical Society, who writes about what's happening in science. Park is a physicist, and knows what he's talking about.