Biorobotics; creating robots that mimic the movements of nature

Biorobotics is a laboratory that specialises in the development and study of biorobots that reproduce the mobility of different animals. The goal of their developments is to reproduce certain animal movements. All while gaining the capacities to learn from them and use that for our benefit and well-being. This laboratory belonging to the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, already presented us a few months ago Pleurobot, a salamander robot capable of swimming thanks to its bones and joints printed in 3D.

A few months ago they presented a robot in collaboration with the BBC for the recording of the documentary “Spy in the Wild”. A huge crocodile robot that infiltrated nature to give researchers more information about the lives of these animals. This week we talked with Kamilo Melo, a Biorobotics Researcher. He told us, in detail, about the development processes of some of his most famous biorobots.

3DN: Can you present yourself and tell us how the idea of Biorobotics came up?

Kamilo Melo