Abstract
The wealth of information on animal structure and motion could well assist the engineer in robotic design. Books and journal articles going back to the early 1800’s document systematic observations by experimental scientists, mostly biologists and zoologists. Although this literature is steeped in the jargon of specialists and sometimes presents conflicting theories for the same observed phenomenon, the engineer with some patience may glean much from articles about the essential mechanisms by which animals move their appendages for locomotion and in gathering food.
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Wilson, J.F. (1984). Robotic Mechanics and Animal Morphology. In: Brady, M., Gerhardt, L.A., Davidson, H.F. (eds) Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. NATO ASI Series, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82153-0_22
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