from Robotics Trends

Anthropomimetic robot “imitates not just the human form, but also the biological structures that enable and constrain perception and action.”

By Robotics Trends’ News Sources – Filed May 02, 2012

Keith Wagstaff for TechLand—The anthropomimetic robot synthetic human parts like bones, muscles and tendons. Its name is ECCEROBOT (short for Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot) and it’s being developed by Owen Holland at the University of Sussex. The idea of biomimetic robots is not new — scientists have been building robots based on animals like fish and birds for a while now. . . . Read Complete Report