| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Cover; Living Machines; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Section I Roadmaps; 1 Living Machines: An introduction; 2 A Living Machines approach to the sciences of mind and brain; 3 A roadmap for Living Machines research; Section II Life; 4 Life; 5 Self-organization; 6 Energy and metabolism; 7 Reproduction; 8 Evo-devo; 9 Growth and tropism; 10 Biomimetic materials; 11 Modeling self and others; 12 Towards a general theory of evolution; Section III Building blocks; 13 Building blocks; 14 Vision; 15 Audition; 16 Touch; 17 Chemosensation; 18 Proprioception and body schema |
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19 Electric sensing for underwater navigation20 Muscles; 21 Rhythms and oscillations; 22 Skin and dry adhesion; Section IV Capabilities; 23 Capabilities; 24 Pattern generation; 25 Perception; 26 Learning and control; 27 Attention and orienting; 28 Decision making; 29 Spatial and episodic memory; 30 Reach, grasp, and manipulate; 31 Quadruped locomotion; 32 Flight; 33 Communication; 34 Emotions and self-regulation; 35 The architecture of mind and brain; 36 A chronology of Distributed Adaptive Control; 37 Consciousness; Section V Living machines; 38 Biomimetic systems |
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39 Toward living nanomachines40 From slime molds to soft deformable robots; 41 Soft-bodied terrestrial invertebrates and robots; 42 Principles and mechanisms learned from insects and applied to robotics; 43 Cooperation in collective systems; 44 From aquatic animals to robot swimmers; 45 Mammals and mammal-like robots; 46 Winged artifacts; 47 Humans and humanoids; Section VI Biohybrid systems; 48 Biohybrid systems; 49 Brain-machine interfaces; 50 Implantable neural interfaces; 51 Biohybrid robots are synthetic biology systems; 52 Micro- and nanotechnology for living machines |
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53 Biohybrid touch interfaces54 Implantable hearing interfaces; 55 Hippocampal memory prosthesis; Section VII Perspectives; 56 Perspectives; 57 Human augmentation and the age of the transhuman; 58 From sensory substitution to perceptual supplementation; 59 Neurorehabilitation; 60 Human relationships with living machines; 61 Living machines in our cultural imagination; 62 The ethics of virtual reality and telepresence; 63 Can machines have rights?; 64 A sketch of the education landscape in biomimetic and biohybrid systems; 65 Sustainability of living machines; Index |
| Summary |
Contemporary research in the field of robotics attempts to harness the versatility and sustainability of living organisms with the hope of rendering a renewable, adaptable, and robust class of technology that can facilitate self-repairing, social, and moral--even conscious--machines. This landmark volume surveys this flourishing area of research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
Robots -- Design and construction
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Biomimicry.
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Biomimetics.
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Natural computation.
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Artificial intelligence -- Biological applications.
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Bionics
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Biomimetics
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COMPUTERS -- General.
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Robots -- Design and construction
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Artificial intelligence -- Biological applications
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Biomimetics
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Biomimicry
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Natural computation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prescott, Tony J., editor.
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Lepora, Nathan, editor
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Verschure, Paul F. M. J., editor
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| ISBN |
9780191662560 |
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0191662569 |
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9780191842702 |
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0191842702 |
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