New invention of Professor Seth Hutchinson
Robotics-inspired biology (http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~gravish/ICRA2015/) Abstract Advances in all aspects of robotics (design, manufacturing, actuation, and controls) have enabled the development of bio-inspired robots that can now achieve some similar functions as their biological counterparts (the Harvard RoboBee, CMU modsnake, RHex, etc). Due to the increasing use of robots as a tool in the scientific process, a large community of biologists use sophisticated robotics hardware and principles to test biological hypotheses in control, actuation, and dynamics of organismal motion. The goal of…