The Science Behind Animal-Inspired Robotics

Sponberg, Simon

Title:

The Science Behind Animal-Inspired Robotics

dc.contributor.author	Sponberg, Simon
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-01T17:31:58Z
dc.date.available	2014-12-01T17:31:58Z
dc.date.issued	2014-11-10
dc.description	Presented on November 10, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 144.	en_US
dc.description	Simon Sponberg is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech.
dc.description	Runtime: 65:23 minutes
dc.description.abstract	The 21st Century has seen an explosion of bio-inspired technology and devices. Perhaps no where has this approach been more transformative than in the field of mobile robotics. Geckos, snakes, and even cockroaches have motivated new sticky, stable, steerable robots. Yet inspiration means more than curiosity. As scientists we must unravel the scientific principles and mechanisms underlying animal performance. By studying the physics of these living systems we can inform a systematic approach to animal-inspired robotics. By doing so, we discover new properties and dynamics of complex systems -- the robots themselves even become experimental platforms to test hypotheses. We can learn the pitfalls of ignoring the evolutionary context that shaped animal locomotion and the power of non-dimensional ratios that scale across biology. In this talk, we will first explore how human technology is taking on more characteristics for which the natural world is a better teacher. We will then use several examples over the past decade of robotics research where animals have served as the inspiration, but where identification of the underlying physics has led to innovation. Finally we will discuss how new bio-physical insights emerged from studying the resulting robots as physical models for the biological systems.	en_US
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dc.format.extent	65:23 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52856
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Physics Public Lecture Series
dc.subject	Bio-inspired	en_US
dc.subject	Physics	en_US
dc.subject	Robotics	en_US
dc.title	The Science Behind Animal-Inspired Robotics	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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