Humanoid robotics and neuroscience science, engineering and society

Humanoid robots are highly sophisticated machines equipped with human-like sensory and motor capabilities. Today we are on the verge of a new era of rapid transformations in both science and engineering-one that brings together technological advancements in a way that will accelerate both neuroscien...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cheng, Gordon, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press 2015.
Series:Frontiers in neuroengineering.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622060006719
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Contents; Series Preface; The Editor; Contributors; SECTION I: Humanoid Robotics Perspective to Neuroscience; Chapter 1: Humanoid Robotics and Neuroscience: Science Engineering, and Society; Chapter 2: Humanoid Brain Science; SECTION II: Emulating the Neuro-Mechanisms with Humanoid Robots; Chapter 3: Hands, Dexterity, and the Brain; Chapter 4: Stochastic Information Processing that Unifies Recognition and Generation of Motion Patterns: Toward Symbolical Understanding of the Continuous World; Chapter 5: Foveal Vision for Humanoid Robots
  • Chapter 6: Representation and Control of the Task Space in Humans and Humanoid RobotsChapter 7: Humanoid Locomotion and the Brain; Chapter 8: Humanoid Motor Control: Dynamics and the Brain; SECTION III: Leaping Forward: Toward Cognitive Humanoid Robots; Chapter 9: Learning from Examples: Imitation Learning and Emerging Cognition; Chapter 10: Toward Language: Vocalization by Cognitive Developmental Robotics