Living Machines: A Handbook of Research in Biomimetics and Biohybrid Systems 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0191666815
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780191666810
• Author: Tony J. Prescott, Nathan Lepora, Paul F.M.J Verschure

Contemporary research in the field of robotics attempts to harness the versatility and sustainability of living organisms. By exploiting those natural principles, scientists hope to render a renewable, adaptable, and robust class of technology that can facilitate self-repairing, social, and moral–even conscious–machines. This is the realm of robotics that scientists call “the living machine”.

Living Machines can be divided into two entities-biomimetic systems, those that harness the principles discovered in nature and embody them in new artifacts, and biohybrid systems, which couple biological entities with synthetic ones.

Living Machines: A handbook of research in biomimetic and biohybrid systems surveys this flourishing area of research. It captures the current state of play and points to the opportunities ahead, addressing such fields as self-organization and co-operativity, biologically-inspired active materials, self-assembly and self-repair, learning, memory, control architectures and self-regulation, locomotion in air, on land or in water, perception, cognition, control, and communication. In all of these areas, the potential of biomimetics is shown through the construction of a wide range of different biomimetic devices and animal-like robots. Biohybrid systems is a relatively new field, with exciting and largely unknown potential, but one that is likely to shape the future of humanity. Chapters outline current research in areas including brain-machine interfaces-where neurons are connected to microscopic sensors and actuators-and various forms of intelligent prostheses from sensory devices like artificial retinas, to life-like artificial limbs, brain implants, and virtual reality-based rehabilitation approaches.

Table contents:

Section I Roadmaps

1 Living Machines: An introduction

2 A Living Machines approach to the sciences of mind and brain

3 A roadmap for Living Machines research

Section II Life

4 Life

5 Self-organization

6 Energy and metabolism

7 Reproduction

8 Evo-devo

9 Growth and tropism

10 Biomimetic materials

11 Modeling self and others

12 Towards a general theory of evolution

Section III Building blocks

13 Building blocks

14 Vision

15 Audition

16 Touch

17 Chemosensation

18 Proprioception and body schema

19 Electric sensing for underwater navigation

20 Muscles

21 Rhythms and oscillations

22 Skin and dry adhesion

Section IV Capabilities

23 Capabilities

24 Pattern generation

25 Perception

26 Learning and control

27 Attention and orienting

28 Decision making

29 Spatial and episodic memory

30 Reach, grasp, and manipulate

31 Quadruped locomotion

32 Flight

33 Communication

34 Emotions and self-regulation

35 The architecture of mind and brain

36 A chronology of Distributed Adaptive Control

37 Consciousness

Section V Living machines

38 Biomimetic systems

39 Toward living nanomachines

40 From slime molds to soft deformable robots

41 Soft-bodied terrestrial invertebrates and robots

42 Principles and mechanisms learned from insects and applied to robotics

43 Cooperation in collective systems

44 From aquatic animals to robot swimmers

45 Mammals and mammal-like robots

46 Winged artifacts

47 Humans and humanoids

Section VI Biohybrid systems

48 Biohybrid systems

49 Brain–machine interfaces

50 Implantable neural interfaces

51 Biohybrid robots are synthetic biology systems

52 Micro- and nanotechnology for living machines

53 Biohybrid touch interfaces

54 Implantable hearing interfaces

55 Hippocampal memory prosthesis

Section VII Perspectives

56 Perspectives

57 Human augmentation and the age of the transhuman

58 From sensory substitution to perceptual supplementation

59 Neurorehabilitation

60 Human relationships with living machines

61 Living machines in our cultural imagination

62 The ethics of virtual reality and telepresence

63 Can machines have rights?

64 A sketch of the education landscape in biomimetic and biohybrid systems

65 Sustainability of living machines

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