3 papers
cs.RO2026
Justifying bio-inspired robotics research: A taxonomy of strategies
Margaret J. Zhang, Justin Ting, Talia Y. Moore
For most of human history, we have not thought systematically about how and why we incorporate aspects of the natural world into our designs. The lack of a systematic approach has…
cs.RO2025
The Robot of Theseus: A modular robotic testbed for legged locomotion
Karthik Urs, Jessica Carlson, Aditya Srinivas Manohar +5
Robotic models are useful for independently varying specific features, but most quadrupedal robots differ so greatly from animal morphologies that they have minimal biomechanical r…
cs.HC2024
Humans prefer interacting with slow, less realistic butterfly simulations
Paige L. Reiter, Talia Y. Moore
How should zoomorphic, or bio-inspired, robots indicate to humans that interactions will be safe and fun? Here, a survey is used to measure how human willingness to interact with a…