A robust perception system is crucial for natural human–robot interaction. An essential capability of these systems is to provide a rich representation of the robot’s environment, typically using multiple sensory sources. Moreover, this i...
There is a growing demand for underwater robots to support offshore tasks such as exploration, environmental monitoring, and critical underwater missions. To enhance the performance of these systems, researchers are increasingly turning to biological...
The article aims to describe stages of development of a mobile, anthropomorphic robot. The individual phases of the bio-inspired model-based design of a two-legged robot are described, from the analysis of human walking patterns, through the creation...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for effective surface disinfection solutions, which has led to the use of mobile robots equipped with ultraviolet (UVC) lamps as a promising technology. This study aims to optimize the navigation of d...
This paper presents the design and experimental evaluation of a bio-inspired gecko robot, focusing on mechanical design, vision-based obstacle perception, and rhythmic locomotion control as enabling technologies for future obstacle avoidance in compl...
Studying the interactions between biological organisms and their environment provides engineers with valuable insights for developing complex mechanical systems and fostering the creation of novel technological innovations. In this study, we introduc...
Vision-based robot control remains a significant challenge due to the sample inefficiency and prolonged training times associated with traditional deep reinforcement learning methods. We propose a novel approach inspired by biological gene regulation...
Piping inspection robots are of greater importance for industries such as nuclear, chemical and sewage. Mechanisms having closed loop or tree-like structures can be employed in such pipelines owing to their adaptable structures. A bio-inspired caterp...
Soft continuum robots, characterized by their dexterous and compliant nature, often face limitations due to buckling under small loads. This study explores the enhancement of axial performance in soft robots intrinsically actuated with extensile flui...
Over the past 50 years, the space race has potentially grown due to the development of sophisticated mechatronic systems. One of the most important is the bio-inspired mobile-planetary robots, actually for which there is no reported one that currentl...
Soft robots offer significant advantages in adaptability, safe interactions, and operation in unstructured environments, yet their design faces unique challenges due to infinite degrees of freedom, nonlinear material behavior, and coupled multi-physi...
Tensegrity structures have lightweight, compliant, impact-resistant, and large-deformation characteristics, providing a deformable structural solution for mobile robots in complex environments. Inspired by earthworm peristaltic locomotion, this study...
This study presents the design of a hybrid active disturbance rejection controller (H-ADRC) which regulates the gait cycle of a worm bio-inspired robotic device (WBRD). The WBRD is designed as a full actuated six rigid link robotic manipulator. The c...
Robot-aided outdoor cleaning is a challenging task with plenty of room for improvement. The cleaning profile of a robot should be adjusted based on the availability of litter to ensure proper and efficient cleaning. This article proposes a novel syst...
Bio-inspired flow-sensing and actuation mechanisms offer a promising path for enhancing the stability of flapping-wing flying robots (FWFRs) operating in dynamic and noisy environments. This study introduces a bio-inspired sensing and actuation feath...
To address the intelligent path planning challenges faced by mobile robots operating in complex road environments, this paper introduces the Hybrid Symmetric Bio-inspired Neural Network Algorithm (HSBNN). This algorithm integrates the improved bio-in...
Bio-inspired solutions are often taken into account to solve problems that nature took millions of years to deal with. In the field of robotics, when we need to design systems able to perform in unstructured environments, bio-inspiration can be a use...
Morphology is a defining trait of any walking entity, animal or robot, and is crucial in obtaining movement versatility, dexterity and durability. Collaborations between biologist and engineers create opportunities for implementing bio-inspired morph...
Controlling robots in space with necessarily low material and structural stiffness is quite challenging at least in part due to the resulting very low structural resonant frequencies or natural vibration. The frequencies are sometimes so low that the...
In order to effectively plan the robot gaits and foot workspace trajectory (WT) synchronously, a novel biologically inspired control strategy for the locomotion of a quadruped robot based on central pattern generator—neural network—workspace trajecto...
This article presents a generalizable, low computational cost, simple, and fast gravity compensation method for legged robots with a variable number of legs. It is based on the static problem, which is a reduction in the dynamic model of the robot th...
Biomimetics is the interdisciplinary cooperation of biology and technology that offers solutions to practical problems by analyzing biological systems and transferring their principles into applications. This review article focused on biomimetic inno...
Rough-terrain exploration is critical for applications ranging from post-disaster search-and-rescue to planetary exploration. While conventional wheeled or bipedal robots often struggle in these environments, biological organisms like myriapods demon...
The biomechanics of frog jumping has been a subject of significant interest in both biology and engineering, driven by the high efficiency of their movement. This study presents the dynamic simulation of a frog’s complete jump cycle, from take-...
The increasing complexity of marine operations has intensified the need for intelligent robotic systems to support ocean observation, exploration, and resource management. Underwater swarm robotics offers a promising framework that extends the capabi...
This study presents a new combinable multi-legged modular robot that mimics the structures of ants to expand the physical capabilities of the legged robot. To do this, the robot design is focused on exploring a fusion of two robotic platforms, modula...
Industrial robots are undergoing a transformative shift as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven and bio-inspired control strategies unlock new levels of precision, adaptability, and multi-dimensional sustainability aligned with Industry 5.0 (energy ef...
Inspired by insects in nature, an increasing number of soft robots have been proposed to mimic their locomotion patterns. As a wireless actuation method, the magnetic actuation technique has been widely applied to drive soft magnetic robots for diver...
Multi-legged robots, such as hexapods, have great potential to navigate challenging terrain. However, their design and control are usually much more complex and energy-demanding compared to wheeled robots. This paper presents a wheeled six-legged rob...
This paper presents a data-driven framework for optimizing energy-efficient locomotion in a bio-inspired soft inchworm robot. Leveraging a feedforward neural network, the proposed approach accurately models the nonlinear relationships between actuati...
Bionics, the interdisciplinary field that draws inspiration from nature to design and develop innovative technologies, has paved the way for the creation of “bio-inspired robots” [...]
Bio-inspiration relentlessly sparks the novel ideas to develop innovative soft robotic structures from smart materials. The conceptual soft robotic designs inspired by biomimetic routes have resulted in pioneering research contributions based on the...
The aim of this work is to present the development of a bio-inspired approach for a robotic tail using Macro Fiber Composites (MFC) as actuators. The use of this technology will allow achieving closer to the nature approach of the tail, aiming to mim...
In this study, the authors focus on the structural design of and recovery methods for a damaged quadruped robot with a limited number of functional legs. Because the pre-designed controller cannot be executed when the robot is damaged, a control stra...
Soft robotic actuators exploit structural compliance to produce adaptive motion, but their response depends strongly on the interaction between geometry, material distribution, specific reinforcement, and actuation. This manuscript presents a bio-ins...
The rapid growth in the use of wind energy has led to significant challenges in the inspection and maintenance of wind turbine blades, especially as turbine sizes increase dramatically and as operational environments become harsh and unpredictable. W...
Bio-inspired quadrupedal robots exhibit superior adaptability and mobility in unstructured environments, making them suitable for complex task scenarios such as navigation, obstacle avoidance, and tracking in a variety of environments. Visual percept...
The jumping motion of legged robots is an effective way to overcome obstacles in the rugged microgravity planetary exploration environment. At the same time, a quadruped robot with a manipulator can achieve operational tasks during movement, which is...
The continuum robot is a new type of bionic robot which is widely used in the medical field. However, the current structure of the continuum robot limits its application in the field of minimally invasive surgery. In this paper, a bio-inspired compou...
Underwater target acquisition and identification performed by manipulators having broad application prospects and value in the field of marine development. Conventional manipulators are too heavy to be used for small target objects and unsuitable for...
Bio-inspired hydrogel robots have become promising due to their advantage of the interaction safety and comfort between robots and humans, while current hydrogel robots mainly focus on underwater movement due to the hydration–dehydration proces...
Exploring the lunar complex and extreme terrain presents formidable challenges for conventional lunar rovers. To address these limitations, this study proposes a novel hexapod jumping hybrid robot that incorporates a “figure-of-eight” (bu...
Snake robots constitute bio-inspired solutions that have been studied due to their ability to move in challenging environments where other types of robots, such as wheeled or legged robots, usually fail. In this paper, we consider both land-based and...
Extraterrestrial exploration presents unique challenges for robotic systems, as traditional rigid rovers face limitations in stowage volume, traction on unpredictable terrain, and susceptibility to damage. Soft robotics offers promising solutions thr...
Numerous path-planning studies have been conducted in past decades due to the challenges of obtaining optimal solutions. This paper reviews multi-robot path-planning approaches and decision-making strategies and presents the path-planning algorithms...
This paper proposes a novel intelligent approach to swarm robotics, drawing inspiration from the collective foraging behavior exhibited by fish schools. A bio-inspired neural network (BINN) and a self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm are used to enable...
Designing an urban reconnaissance robot is highly challenging work given the nature of the terrain in which these robots are required to operate. In this work, we attempt to extend the locomotion capabilities of these robots beyond what is currently...
This paper presents a bio-inspired rigid–flexible continuum robot driven by flexible shaft tension–torsion synergy, tackling the trade-off between actuation complexity and flexibility in continuum robots. Inspired by the muscular arrangem...
Although previous research has improved the energy efficiency of humanoid robots to increase mobility, no study has considered the offset between hip joints to this end. Here, we optimized the offsets of hip joints in humanoid robots via the Taguchi...
The field of Robotics is ever growing at the same time as posing enormous challenges. Numerous works has been done in biologically inspired robotics emulating models, systems and elements of nature for the purpose of solving traditional robotics prob...
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