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Behav Brain Sci. 2001 Dec;24(6):1072-1073. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X01450126.

Research, robots, and reality: A statement on current trends in biorobotics.

The Behavioral and brain sciences

Ernst Niebur, Mounya Elhilali, Iyad Obeid, Justin Werfel, Mark Blanchard, Mattia Frasca, Kaushik Ghose, Constanze Hofstoetter, Giovanni Indiveri, Mark W Tilden

Affiliations

  1. Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 [email protected] http://cnslab.mb.jhu.edu.

PMID: 18241384 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X01450126

Abstract

While robotics has benefited from inspiration gained from biology, the opposite is not the case: there are few if any cases in which robotic models have lead to genuine insight into biology. We analyze the reasons why biorobotics has been essentially a one-way street. We argue that the development of better tools is essential for progress in this field.

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