Will robots be bodies with brains or brains with bodies?

Affiliations

¹ Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97339, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
² Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
⁴ Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.

Review

Yiğit Mengüç et al. Sci Robot. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 29;2(12):eaar4527.

doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aar4527.

¹ Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97339, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
² Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.
⁴ Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. yigit.menguc@oregonstate.edu nikolaus.correll@colorado.edu rebecca.kramer@yale.edu jamie.paik@epfl.ch.

Abstract

Biology motivates how complex functionality results from systems of simple materials.