Bio-inspired robotics | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-03-28

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00:01:32 1 Biolocomotion
00:01:47 1.1 Locomotion on a surface
00:02:09 1.2 Locomotion in a fluid
00:02:28 2 Behavioral classification (terrestrial locomotion)
00:03:19 2.1 Legged locomotion
00:04:22 2.2 Limbless locomotion
00:06:04 2.3 Climbing
00:07:02 2.4 Jumping
00:08:24 3 Behavioral classification (aquatic locomotion)
00:08:36 3.1 Swimming (piscine)
00:10:22 4 Morphological classification
00:10:33 4.1 Modular
00:11:11 4.2 Humanoid
00:12:06 4.3 Swarming
00:12:38 4.4 Soft
00:13:15 5 See also



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Bio-inspired robotic locomotion is a fairly new subcategory of bio-inspired design. It is about learning concepts from nature and applying them to the design of real-world engineered systems. More specifically, this field is about making robots that are inspired by biological systems. Biomimicry and bio-inspired design are sometimes confused. Biomimicry is copying the nature while bio-inspired design is learning from nature and making a mechanism that is simpler and more effective than the system observed in nature. Biomimicry has led to the development of a different branch of robotics called soft robotics. The biological systems have been optimized for specific tasks according to their habitat. However, they are multifunctional and are not designed for only one specific functionality. Bio-inspired robotics is about studying biological systems, and look for the mechanisms that may solve a problem in the engineering field. The designer should then try to simplify and enhance that mechanism for the specific task of interest. Bio-inspired roboticists are usually interested in biosensors (e.g. eye), bioactuators (e.g. muscle), or biomaterials (e.g. spider silk). Most of the robots have some type of locomotion system. Thus, in this article different modes of animal locomotion and few examples of the corresponding bio-inspired robots are introduced.