HyKim-development of a robot bear: Bringing the strength and robustness of a bear's biomimetic features to a robot

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-18

  Turner, Peter ^a   Dickinson, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bear; Biomimetic; Biped; Quadruped; Robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BEAR; BIOMIMETIC PRINCIPLES; BIPED; DEGREE OF FREEDOM (DOF); ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE; MECHANICAL DESIGN; OPEN ARCHITECTURE; QUADRUPED;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70349171317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4912972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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