Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, held at II Ciocco, Toscana, Italy, June 26-30, 1989

Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue the development of artificial systems based on the study of biological systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies, including artificial intelligence and learningdevices, information processing, systems architecture and control, perception, sensory mechanisms, and bioenergetics, contributed to bionics research. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop within the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control...