3. Fundamental research
While bio-inspired robots have many applications, they are also the focus of fundamental research aimed at increasing our knowledge of biological systems. On the one hand, they make it possible to test and suggest hypotheses on how these systems function; on the other, they enable highly standardized and reproducible experiments to be carried out, which are sometimes impossible to perform on living organisms for ethical reasons.
3.1 Sensorimotor control
A variety of robots have been used to understand how the sensory and motor equipment of living systems enable the control of complex movements, how different configurations of actuators and skeletal elements can affect locomotion, and how the rigidity or flexibility of certain elements can modify propulsion on...
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