Towards Living Machines: current and future trends of tactile sensing, grasping, and social robotics

Vasiliki Vouloutsi; Lorenzo Cominelli; Mehmet Dogar; Nathan Lepora; Claudio Zito; Uriel Martinez-Hernandez

doi:10.1088/1748-3190/acb7b9

Towards Living Machines: current and future trends of tactile sensing, grasping, and social robotics

Vasiliki Vouloutsi^*, Lorenzo Cominelli, Mehmet Dogar, Nathan Lepora, Claudio Zito, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez^*

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Abstract

The development of future technologies can be highly influenced by our deeper understanding of the principles that underlie living organisms. The Living Machines conference aims at presenting (among others) the interdisciplinary work of behaving systems based on such principles. Celebrating the 10 years of the conference, we present the progress and future challenges of some of the key themes presented in the robotics workshop of the Living Machines conference. More specifically, in this perspective paper, we focus on the advances in the field of biomimetics and robotics for the creation of artificial systems that can robustly interact with their environment, ranging from tactile sensing, grasping, and manipulation to the creation of psychologically plausible agents.

Original language	English
Article number	025002
Journal	Bioinspiration and Biomimetics
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/acb7b9
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2023

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This work was partially funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Grant EP/V052659/1.

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Leverhulme Research Leadership Award on ‘A biomimetic forebrain for robot touch’ (RL-2016-39).

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.

Keywords

anthropomorphism
biomimetics
grasping
manipulation
perception
robotics
touch

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