Bionics is a medical engineering field and a branch of biorobotics consisting of electrical and mechanical systems that imitate biological systems, such as prosthetics and hearing aids. It's a portmanteau that combines biology and electronics.

2014年10月10日 · Biorobotics is an exciting research area with two main objectives: (i) taking inspiration from biological principles to design robots that match the agility of animals, and (ii) using robots as scientific tools to investigate animal adaptive behavior.

The Biorobotics Lab reduces complicated high-dimensional problems found in robotics to low-dimensional simpler ones for design, analysis, and planning. Often, we look to biology for inspiration and sometimes, we return the favor by providing analysis that models biology.

Biorobotics fosters the convergence of technological achievements with new scientific knowledge and helps us understand the underlying natural phenomena and behaviors (Dario et al., 2008).

In this time, we have built a number of different robots but are perhaps best known for novel snake-like robots (see http://biorobotics.org). In our opinion, the single biggest influence in biological inspiration is Bob Full.

2023年11月30日 · (MEDFORD, Mass.) – Researchers have created tiny biological robots, called Anthrobots, from adult human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and encourage the growth of neurons in a lab dish.

2025年2月12日 · Tamborini postulated that the combinatorial practice of bionics, biomimetics, biorobotics, and all design strategies inspired by nature involves not just imitating nature, but also interpreting concepts. He also proposed that the ability to replicate complex locomotion systems in robots stems from this interpretive practice.

A few years ago, an IEEE Spectrum editorial identified 8 “cyborg” technologies paving the way for modern medicine to go bionic. 1 These range from well-known implanted electrical devices for stimulating the nervous system to implanted systems to …

2020年1月22日 · Bioinspired and biohybrid robots can help respond to diverse, sustainable application needs. In biology, a life cycle is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state.

Biorobotics Lab alum Amy Kerdok '06 was featured in SEAS's Q&A with Amy Kerdok '06 (Ph.D.) News Archives Our research focuses on the role of sensing and mechanical design in motor control, in both robots and humans.