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Biorobotics is a term
that loosely covers the fields of
cybernetics,
bionics and even
genetic engineering as a
collective study.
Biorobotics is often used to
refer to the study of making
robots that emulate or simulate
living biological organisms, it is
also used in the reverse: making
biological organisms as
manipulatable and functional as
robots.
In the later sense biorobotics
is referred to as a theoretical
discipline of comprehensive
genetic engineering in which
organisms are created and designed
by artificial means. The creation
of life from non-living matter for
example, is biorobotics. Because
of its mostly theoretical status
it is presently limited to science
fiction, the actually field is in
its infancy as
synthetic biology.
The Replicants in the movie
Blade Runner would be
considered biorobotic in nature:
(synthetic) organisms of living
tissue and cells yet created
artificially. Instead of
microchips, their brain would be
based on ganglions/artificial
neurons.
See also
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General subfields and
scientists in
Cybernetics |
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K1 |
Ergodic theory,
Polycontexturality,
Second order cybernetics |
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K2 |
Catastrophe theory,
Connectionism,
Control theory,
Decision theory,
Information theory,
Semiotics,
Synergetics,
Systems theory |
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K3 |
Biological cybernetics,
Biomedical cybernetics,
Biorobotics,
Computational neuroscience,
Homeostasis,
Medical cybernetics,
Neuro cybernetics,
Sociocybernetics |
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Cyberneticians |
William Ross Ashby,
Claude Bernard,
Valentin Braitenberg,
Ludwig von Bertalanffy,
Joseph J. DiStefano III,
Heinz von Foerster,
Jay Forrester,
Ernst von Glasersfeld,
Francis Heylighen,
Erich von Holst,
Stuart Kauffman,
Niklas Luhmann,
Warren McCulloch,
Humberto Maturana,
Horst Mittelstaedt,
Talcott Parsons,
Walter Pitts,
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown,
Robert Trappl,
Valentin Turchin,
Francisco Varela,
Frederic Vester,
Kevin Warwick,
Norbert Wiener |
