Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Biorobotics Challenges Engineers

by R. Colin Johnson EE Times, 17 MAy 2006 While enabling better robots, biorobotics are also encouraging engineers to become neuroscientists, an expert told the IEEE's International Conference on Robotics and Automation. "Biorobotics offers a new paradigm for engineers," said keynote speaker Paolo Dario. "The engineer no longer just cooperates with neuroscientists, but has become a scientist too in order to discover basic biological principles that make their job easier." Read more