Development of a biomimetic robotic bear: Or is a bare bear bearable?

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-12

  Turner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bear; Biometric; Robotic

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; BIOMIMETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BEAR; BIOMIMETIC ROBOTICS; FOUR-LEGGED LEAGUE; GENERAL PUBLICS; HIGH QUALITY DESIGN; PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70349168193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4912971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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