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Biomimetic Robots

Robotics offers biologists a powerful tool for experimentally evaluating evolutionary hypotheses. We design robots to mimic specific biological traits to allow the fitness of those traits to be assessed via controlled experiments.

Publications

  • S.M. Danforth, M. Kohler, D. Bruder, A.R. Davis Rabosky, S. Kota, R. Vasudevan, and T.Y. Moore. "Emulating Duration and Curvature of Coral Snake Anti-predator Thrashing Behaviors Using a Soft-robotic Platform". IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2020. [link] [bibtex] [video]