Towards Living Machines: current and future trends of tactile sensing, grasping, and social robotics.

Journal: Bioinspiration & biomimetics
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Abstract

The development of future technologies can be highly influenced by our deeper understanding of the principles that underlie living organisms. The Living Machines conference aims at presenting (among others) the interdisciplinary work of behaving systems based on such principles. Celebrating the 10 years of the conference, we present the progress and future challenges of some of the key themes presented in the robotics workshop of the Living Machines conference. More specifically, in this perspective paper, we focus on the advances in the field of biomimetics and robotics for the creation of artificial systems that can robustly interact with their environment, ranging from tactile sensing, grasping, and manipulation to the creation of psychologically plausible agents.

Authors

  • Vasiliki Vouloutsi
    Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • Lorenzo Cominelli
    Department of Information Engineering and Center E. Piaggio, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
  • Mehmet Dogar
    University of Leeds, School of Computing, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
  • Nathan Lepora
    Department of Engineering Mathematics and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  • Claudio Zito
    Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • Uriel Martinez-Hernandez
    2 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath , Bath, BA2 7AY , UK.