This
homepage is the Biomimetics website of the JPL's
NDEAA Technologies Lab
My related books
are as follows:
· The
book “Biomimetics: Nature-Based Innovation,” can be ordered from thru the links
on CRC Press
and Allbooksstore This book is the first book in the Biomimetics
Series for which I am the Editor.
·
The book about humanlike robots entitled “The
Coming Robot Revolution - Expectations and
Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines,” can be
ordered from Springer,
or Amazon.com,
or Barnes
and Noble.com,
·
The book entitled "Biomimetics – Biologically Inspired
Technologies" can be ordered from
Barnes
and Noble.com, amazon.com,
CRC
Press, AnyBook4Less.com
and in a list of other websites where the book can be purchased is available at
allbookstores.com
·
The book "Biologically-Inspired Intelligent Robots"
can be ordered online from SPIE Press or alibris.com,
Barnes
& Noble Borders
Amazon.com, and in a list of other websites where the
book can be purchased
·
The book on Artificial Muscles: "Electroactive
Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles - Reality, Potential and
Challenges," can be
ordered from Barnes
& Noble, Borders
Amazon.com, and in a list of other where the book can
be purchased
Nature is the largest laboratory that ever existed and ever will. In addressing its challenges through evolution Nature tested every field of science and engineering leading to inventions that work well and last. Nature has “experimented” with various solutions and over billions of years it has improved the successful ones. It has always served as a model for mimicking and inspiration to humans in their efforts to improve their life. Adapting mechanisms and capabilities from nature and using scientific approaches led to effective materials, structures, tools, mechanisms, processes, algorithms, methods, systems and many other benefits. The subject of copying, imitating, and learning from biology was coined Biomimetics by Otto H. Schmitt in 1969. This field is increasingly involved with emerging subjects of science and engineering and it represents the studies and imitation of nature's methods, designs and processes. Biologically inspired technologies are making it possible to consider developing such devices as prosthetics that feel and operate like the "real thing" as well as engineering robots that look and behave as human and animals. Mimicking Nature involves many challenges and requires significant technology advances. To promote advances in the field of electroactive polymers (EAP) that is know as artificial muscles, Dr. Bar-Cohen, JPL, posed in 1999 an armwrestling challenge for a match between human and a robotic arm that is driven by these materials.
In August 2002, this homepage
was selected by Biomat.com as one of the top 5.
Plants as inspiring
model for active (Nastic) structures
Recent android designs by David Hanson allowed making more human-like robots than ever before and two examples are shown below:
Humanlike head of Einstein (Hanson
Robotics) and Hubo Robot body (KAIST)
Biomimetics
technologies
Artificial Muscles: Worldwide Electroactive Polymers (WW-EAP) Webhub and a lecture about Electroactive Polymers (EAP) archived on video
Robotics:
Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots
Spiderbot - a spider-like robot at JPL
Kismet in
action making various facial expressions, Cynthia Breazeal, MIT
Hanson Robotics, Inc. He presented
his latest android head at the Wired Magazine's
Next Fest in June 2005.
Jeff's All Things Robots - many links to robotics related sites
"Creepy Crawlers May Unravel Web of Planetary Mysteries" (JPL, Dec. 18, 2002)
Communication: Lucent Technologies' Science and Technology for Future Communications Networks
Creatures
and plants that offer a useful model
Octopus
Video showing an encounter with a shark
Video showing an octopus traveling thru tubing
Video showing an octopus effective camouflage capability
Mimic Octopus from Photo Ocean
Aerodynamic seeds
Blowing In the Wind -- Seeds & Fruits Dispersed By Wind
Blimp-Marine
creatures
R/C
Fin-Fish Blimp Hypnotically Swims Through the Air
Air
Ray, the Shiny Remote-Controlled, Wing-Flappin' Critter
AquaJelly and AirJelly Robot
Jellyfish At Home In the Water or the Sky
Humanlike Robots
Publications
and Announcements
"Making Science Fiction an Engineering Reality Using Biologically-Inspired Technologies," 2002 Lester Honor Lecture, Keynote Presentation, Materials Evaluation, January 2003
"Biologically
Inspired Intelligent Robotics," Paper 5051-02, Proceedings of the SPIE
Smart Structures Conf.,
Journal of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics - Learning from nature
Encyclopedia - Wikipedia - Biologically-inspired computing
"Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots Using Artificial Muscles," Keynote presentation, Proceedings of the ICMEMS Conf. held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 20 - July 23, 2003
Biomaterials Network: Biomat.net
Books related to Biomorphic Robotics
Biomimetic
links
Sensors Network,
Australian Research Council,
Elumotion, Ltd,
Centre for Biomimetics,
The
Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies, the University of
Biomimetics
Network for Industrial Sustainability (BIONIS), Biomimetics: Design
inspired by nature,
Androids – Humanoid robots - Rob Knights robotic company,
Environment Adaptive Robotic Systems Laboratory, Bio-mimetic Control Research Center, RIKEN.
Artificial
Life and Robotics Laboratory, Oita University
Biomimetics, New Zealand Inc.
The
Biologically Inspired Systems Lab at AASS
Biologically Inspired Robotics Group - EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Gorgia -
Center for Biologically Inspired Designs
(CBID),
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