Biological designs and neurobiological controls continue to inspire technological development. Biology provides working example and conceptual proofs that push the engineering envelope. The human form and its augmentation are major sources of technological innovation. Engineering helps we interpret biological adaptations observed in nature. Many of our major historical advances, such as tools, telescopes, and writing, are derived from technologies improving action, augmenting perception, and providing cognitive aids to the individual. These advances have increased the speed, power, spatial range, appropriateness, and precision human actions and perceptions.
During the last two decades, biologically inspired robotics developed into a burgeoning field exploring the ideas of artificial life and adaptive behaviors. It won’t be long before robotic lobsters, cockroaches, flies, lamprey, and tuna enter the commercial market. It hopes these efforts lead to the ultimate robot able to mimic aspects of human action, perception and cognition in remote or hazardous environments such as deep space or radiation spills.
These approaches reveal the inner workings of the most flexible and sophisticated motor controllers in existence. They also provide novel and important insights into biological organization, which can be translated into engineering designs. The framework provides a common language for neuroscientists, engineers and computer scientists to collaborate into the code development of robotic neuroprosthetic and neural network components.
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