Bio-Inspired Robotics II

Dear Colleagues,

The evolution of robotics has enabled today’s robots to operate in a variety of unstructured and dynamically changing environments in addition to traditional structured environments. Robots have thus become an important element in our everyday life. One key approach to develop such intelligent and autonomous robots is to draw inspiration from biological systems. Biological structure, mechanisms, and underlying principles have the potential to feed new ideas to support the improvement of conventional robotic design and control. Such biological principles usually originate from animal or even plant models for robots that can sense, think, walk, swim, crawl, or fly. Thus, it is believed that these bio-inspired methods are becoming increasingly important in the face of complex applications. Bio-inspired robotics is leading to the study of innovative structures and computing with sensory–motor coordination and learning to achieve intelligence, flexibility, stability, and adaptation for emergent robotic applications, such as manipulation, learning, and control.

This Special Issue invites original papers of innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, and novel applications and business models relevant to the following selected topics of “Bio-inspired Robotics”.

Prof. Toshio Fukuda
Assoc. Prof. Qing Shi
Dr. Fei Chen
Prof. Wisnu Jatmiko
Guest Editors

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