Living Machines 2017
25-28 July 2017, Stanford University
The development of future real-world technologies will
depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles
underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living
and artificial systems.
Biomimetics is the development of novel technologies
through the distillation of principles
from the study of biological systems.
The investigation of biomimetic systems can serve two complementary goals.
First, a suitably designed and configured biomimetic artefact can be used to
test theories about the natural system of interest. Second, biomimetic
technologies can provide useful, elegant and efficient solutions to unsolved
challenges in science and engineering.
Biohybrid systems are formed by combining at least one
biological component—an existing living system—and at least one artificial,
newly-engineered component. By passing information in one or both directions,
such a system forms a new hybrid bio-artificial entity. The theme of the
conference also encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and
recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion,
morphogenesis and metamorphosis.
The following are some examples of “Living Machines” as
featured at past conferences:
- Biomimetic robots and their component technologies (sensors, actuators, processors) that can intelligently interact with their environments.
- Active biomimetic materials and structures that self-organize and self-repair.
- Nature-inspired designs and manufacturing processes.
- Biomimetic computers—neuromimetic emulations of the physiological basis for intelligent behaviour.
- Biohybrid brain-machine interfaces and neural implants.
- Artificial organs and body-parts including sensory organ-chip hybrids and intelligent prostheses.
- Organism-level biohybrids such as robot-animal or robot-human systems.
Deadline for paper submission: 10 March 2017
More information at the conference website.
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