Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?

By Paolo Dario, Giulio Sandini, P. Aebischer. NATO ASI Series, 2012

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Grey Wolf Optimizer (2014, background): “The concepts of SI was first proposed in 1993 [6].”
Design and Kinematic Modeling of Constant Curvature Continuum Robots: A Review (2010, background): “…the Spine robot, a high-dexterity spray-painting robot (Larson and Davidson 1985), while other academic efforts included the creation of trunk-like manipulators (Wilson et al. 1993; Morecki et al. 1987), and miniature pneumatic or hydraulic actuators applied as robot fingers (Suzumori et al. 1992).”
An exhaustive review of the metaheuristic algorithms for search and optimization: taxonomy, applications, and open challenges (2023, background): “Although Beni and Wang (1993) invented the term ‘Swarm Intelligence’ in 1989 in the context of cellular robotic systems, SI has since become a sensational topic in many industries.”