Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 14th International Conference, Living Machines 2025, Sheffield, UK, July 1518, 2025, Proceedings [Paperback]

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2025, held in Sheffield, UK, during July 15-18, 2025.

The 43 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.

The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids; Soft robotics; Applications and machine learning; Cognitive and computational neuroscience; Navigation, sensors, and perception; Ethics and responsibility; Biomechanics and proprioception.

.- Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids.

.- Thermo-responsive closing and reopening artificial Venus Flytrap
utilizing shape memory elastomers.

.- Biology Meets Design: From Observation to Computational Design
through Interdisciplinary Approaches in Bio-Inspired Design.

.- A Low-Cost Split-Belt Treadmill for Studying Robotic Inter-Limb
Coordination.

.- Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal
Muscle Activation.

.- A Magnetically Actuated Crank-Slider Mechanism Embedded in a
Swallowable Capsule.

.- Design and Validation of a Robotic Cat Hindlimb.

.- The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired
Joints.

.- Design and Control of a Rat Robot.

.- Biologically inspired collision avoidance on a 2-wheeled robot using
elementary movement detectors.

.- Sensorimotor control of motor dynamics adaptations: a computational
study on a human simulated arm.

.- Spike Activations: A Method to Produce a Continuum of Mean Forces
in BPAs.

.- Bio-inspired Open KnlC