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Victoria A Webster-Wood1, Ozan Akkus1,2,3, Umut A Gurkan1,2,3
1Dept. of Mech. and Aero. Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Abstract:
Can we create robots with the behavioral flexibility and robustness of animals? Engineers often use bio-inspiration to mimic animals. Recent advances in tissue engineering now allow the use of components from animals. By integrating organic and synthetic components, researchers are moving towards the development of engineered organisms whose structural framework, actuation, sensing, and control are partially or completely organic. This review discusses recent exciting work demonstrating how organic components can be used for all facets of robot development. Based on this analysis, we propose a Robotic Taxonomic Key to guide the field towards a unified lexicon for device description.
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