Dept. of Mech. and Aero. Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sci Robot. 2017 Nov 22;2(12). doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aap9281.
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.
我们能否创造出具有动物般行为灵活性和鲁棒性的机器人?工程师经常利用生物启发来模拟动物。最近组织工程学的进展现在允许使用来自动物的组件。通过整合有机和合成组件,研究人员正在朝着开发工程生物体的方向发展,这些生物体的结构框架、驱动、传感和控制部分或完全是有机的。这篇综述讨论了最近令人兴奋的工作,展示了如何将有机组件用于机器人开发的各个方面。基于此分析,我们提出了一个机器人分类法关键,以指导该领域朝着设备描述的统一词汇发展。