Gaze Control: A Developmental Perspective

The chapter by Sandini et al. provides good examples of how the working of biological visual systems can help us to understand the design problems of an engineered system, and vice versa. However, it is important to bear in mind that the organization of a biological system has arisen through processes that are rather different from the design and manufacture of an engineered system. The biological system has to be understood as the end point of an evolutionary and a developmental process.

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