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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2025, held in Sheffield, UK, during July 15-18, 2025.
The 43 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.
The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids; Soft robotics; Applications and machine learning; Cognitive and computational neuroscience; Navigation, sensors, and perception; Ethics and responsibility; Biomechanics and proprioception.
List of contents
.- Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids.
.- Thermo-responsive closing and reopening artificial Venus Flytrap
utilizing shape memory elastomers.
.- Biology Meets Design: From Observation to Computational Design
through Interdisciplinary Approaches in Bio-Inspired Design.
.- A Low-Cost Split-Belt Treadmill for Studying Robotic Inter-Limb
Coordination.
.- Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal
Muscle Activation.
.- A Magnetically Actuated Crank-Slider Mechanism Embedded in a
Swallowable Capsule.
.- Design and Validation of a Robotic Cat Hindlimb.
.- The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired
Joints.
.- Design and Control of a Rat Robot.
.- Biologically inspired collision avoidance on a 2-wheeled robot using
elementary movement detectors.
.- Sensorimotor control of motor dynamics adaptations: a computational
study on a human simulated arm.
.- Spike Activations: A Method to Produce a Continuum of Mean Forces
in BPAs.
.- Bio-inspired Open Knee Joint with Ligamentous Constraints and
Antagonistic Actuation.
.- PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation.
.- Hitting the Gym : Reinforcement Learning for Control and Co-design
of Exercise-Strengthened Biohybrid Robots in Simulation.
.- Soft robotics.
.- Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot.
.- Model to Model: Understanding the Venus Flytrap Snapping
Mechanism and Transferring it to a 3D-printed Bistable Soft Robotic
Demonstrator.
.- A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop.
.- Investigating HASELs Actuators for Variable Stiffening in Soft
Continuum Robots.
.- Renewable Self-Folding Origami Constructed from Bioengineered
Bacterial Cellulose.
.- A Highly Articulated Backbone for Soft Snake Robots.
.- Applications and machine learning.
.- When Plants Respond: Electrophysiology and Machine Learning for
Green Monitoring Systems.
.- Continual learning-based neuro-plausible framework for predictive
maintenance in complex engineering systems.
.- Training Neural Networks by Optimizing Neuron Positions.
.- Benchmarking ANN-to-SNN Conversion: Dataset-dependent Analysis
of Accuracy, Latency, and Spike Efficiency.
.- Transforming Origami Sculpture for Exhibition at Art Festival.
.- Cognitive and computational neuroscience.
.- Are liquids part of embodiment?.
.- A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems.
.- A biomimetic collision detection visual neural model coordinating
self-and-lateral inhibitions.
.- The Awareness Attribution Scale: Development, Validation, and
Short-Form Reduction.
.- Trap avoidance: The Potential Neural Computations Underlying
Integration of Appetitive and Aversive Visual Memories in Insect
Navigation.
.- Mismatched Partners in Human-Robot Interaction: Biomimetic Insights
on Aligning Internal States with External Expressions.
.- Emotion Perception in Synthetic Aging: Divergent Insights from
Human Perception and Algorithms.
.- Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for
Perception and Computation.
.- Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Organizes Type Ia Muscle Afferents
in a Synthetic Nervous System.
.- Disentangling Grasp-Object Representations in the Latent Space:
Toward Brain-like Affordances for Machines.
.- Cybernetic Intervention in Stroke Neurorehabilitation.
.- Navigation, sensors, and perception.
.- Optical Waveguide-based Spider Web Enables Resilient Impact
Detection and Localization.
.- Visual Homing in Outdoor Robots Using Mushroom Body Circuits a
Summary
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2025, held in Sheffield, UK, during July 15-18, 2025.
The 43 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.
The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids; Soft robotics; Applications and machine learning; Cognitive and computational neuroscience; Navigation, sensors, and perception; Ethics and responsibility; Biomechanics and proprioception.
