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Biomimetic Robotics at Stanford University
Biomimesis: to mimic life, to imitate biological systems
This research is aimed at developing a new class of biologically
inspired robots that exhibit much greater robustness in
performance in unstructured environments than today's robots. This
new class of robots will be substantially more compliant and stable
than current robots, and will take advantage of new developments in
materials, fabrication technologies, sensors and actuators.
Applications will include autonomous or semi-autonomous tasks
such as reconnaissance and de-mining for small, insect-like robots
and human interaction tasks at a larger scale. The research
involves a close collaboration among robotics and physiology
researchers at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Harvard and Johns
Hopkins Universities.
This research was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under
grant N00014-98-1-0669.
<b>For current work please
<a href="http://bdml.stanford.edu">
visit the new BDML website</a></b>
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