Abstract:
Bio-inspired robotics takes inspiration from living being to build a novel efficient and adaptive robots able to emulate their biological counterpart. The lecture will give an overview of some results in this field, deriving from the application of nonlinear dynamics principles, starting from adaptive locomotion to perception, and closing the perception-action loop. As main source of inspiration, the insect world will be taken into account, due to the extremely reduced brain complexity and, at the same time, the extraordinary plethora of behaviours that can be discovered in such creatures and suitably exploited for the next generation of adaptive robots.