Evolution of prehension ability in an anthropomorphic neurorobotic arm

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2007, Pages

  Massera, Gianluca ^a,b   Cangelosi, Angelo ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolutionary robotics; Reaching and grasping; Robotic arm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861862957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.12.004.2007     Document Type: Article

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