Biorobotics
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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 a real subfield of robotics: studying how to make robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically or even chemically.
The term is also used in a reverse definition: making biological organisms as manipulatable and functional as robots, or making biological organisms as components of robots. In the latter sense, biorobotics can be 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, would be biorobotics. The field is in its infancy and is sometimes known as synthetic biology or bionanotechnology.
See also
- Android (robot)
- Bio-inspired robotics
- Biological machines
- Biological devices
- Biomechatronics
- Biomimetics
- Cultured neural networks
- Cyborg
- Cylon
- Nanobot
- Nanomedicine
- Plantoid
- Remote control animal
- Roborat
