Embodied Intelligence for Advanced Bioinspired Microrobotics: Examples and Insights
Nestor O. Perez-Arancibia

TL;DR
This paper advocates for embodied intelligence (EI) as a design principle in microrobotics, emphasizing co-design of structure and behavior to achieve emergent intelligent locomotion and navigation, demonstrated through various bioinspired robots.
Contribution
It introduces the concept of co-design as a means to embed EI in microrobots, contrasting it with traditional architectures and showcasing several bioinspired robotic platforms.
Findings
Robots exhibit intelligent behavior emerging from structural dynamics.
Embedded feedback and sensing enable scalable, robust control.
Co-design enhances microrobotics beyond classical control methods.
Abstract
The term embodied intelligence (EI) conveys the notion that body morphology, material properties, interaction with the environment, and control strategies can be purposefully integrated into the process of robotic design to generate intelligent behavior; in particular, locomotion and navigation. In this paper, we discuss EI as a design principle for advanced microrobotics, with a particular focus on co-design -- the simultaneous and interdependent development of physical structure and behavioral function. To illustrate the contrast between EI-inspired systems and traditional architectures that decouple sensing, computation, and actuation, we present and discuss a collection of robots developed by the author and his team at the Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory (AMSL). These robots exhibit intelligent behavior that emerges from their structural dynamics and the physical…
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