Lobster Robots 12

We are developing lobster-based underwater robots based on biomimetic neurotechnology. The robots employ a lobster-like physical plant with modularized three degree-of-freedom legs, claw and tail-like hydrodynamic control surfaces, adaptive antennal-like sensors and a neural-circuit based finite-state-machinebased controller. The behavior of this system is based on a library of action patterns reverse engineered from the behavior of the lobsters in the target operational environment. Fig. 1. Lobster Robot Prototype.