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Robotics-Inspired Biology Insights

The document discusses how robotics and physical models are being used to generate new hypotheses and insights for biological research. It provides examples of how robotic models of insect flight and snake locomotion have helped understand natural phenomena. The aim is to use physical models and robots to inform biological investigations and enable interdisciplinary collaboration between biologists and engineers.

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Robotics-Inspired Biology Insights

The document discusses how robotics and physical models are being used to generate new hypotheses and insights for biological research. It provides examples of how robotic models of insect flight and snake locomotion have helped understand natural phenomena. The aim is to use physical models and robots to inform biological investigations and enable interdisciplinary collaboration between biologists and engineers.

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Slide 7-study

Recent work by biologists and interdisciplinary teams have flipped this approach, using robots and
physical models to set the course for experiments on biological systems and to generate new
hypotheses for biological research. We call this approach robotics-inspired biology;

it involves performing experiments on robotic systems aimed at the discovery of new biological
phenomena or generation of new hypotheses about how organisms' function that can then be
tested on living organisms. This approach has helped a lot in understanding the nature while also
preventing it

new trend building on previous advances in biomechanics is emerging in which researchers flip this
traditional model and use robotic and mechanical systems to develop new insights into nature

slide 8 lev

The leading edge vortex (LEV) in flapping wing flight is perhaps the most well-developed example of
the impact physical models may have in understanding animal mechanical function.

Ellington first used a mechanical model to generate and visualize the LEV as a mechanism allowing
flying insects to generate sufficient lift to support their weight against gravity.

Use of this mechanical device was critical to visualization of flow over a moving wing-like surface and
firmly established the LEV as fundamental to understanding insect flight.

Slide 9- ratttle

Another example of robotics-inspired biology comes from recent studies of sidewinding snakes such
as the sidewinder rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes.

Rattlesnakes helps us understand how snakes ascends slopes for the angle by modifying the
amplitude of the vertical traveling wave along their body

they decreased the amplitude of the vertical traveling wave and thus were able to engage more
contact area with the slope as they climbed, which prevents slipping.

Slide 10 - conclusion

The future of robotics-inspired biology is bright, with research in many areas currently incorporating
ideas from mechanical devices into biological investigations.

The aim of robotics-inspired biology research is to ‘close the loop’, and use both physical models
and reactive robotic systems to generate new hypotheses for biological investigation.

We hope that , this approach enables the next generation of biologists and engineers to exploit the
rich dynamics of mechanical systems for biological ends.
Slide 11-critcs

Evolutionary algorithms have long been used to optimize parameters in the search for optimal
designs, but modification of robotic devices and selecting variants for further comparative testing
over multiple generations is an approach that is still in its infancy .

Biological systems are extremely diverse and capturing this diversity in mechanical devices is
challenging; doing so within an evolutionary and phylogenetic context, is even more challenging

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