An Introduction to Ethorobotics Robotics and the Study of Animal Behaviour

Ethorobotics: The Intersection of Animal Behavior and Robotics

This pioneering text explores the emerging discipline of ethorobotics, which brings together the fields of animal behavior and robotics. It encourages closer collaboration between behavioral scientists and engineers to facilitate the creation of robots with a higher degree of functionality in animal/human environments and to broaden the understanding of animal behavior in new and intriguing ways.

Key Features

• Interdisciplinary Introduction: The book is divided into two introductory parts: The first part offers an accessible introduction to the biology of animal behavior for engineers, covering topics like social cognition and communication. The second part introduces the basic construction of robots for non-engineers, including technical achievements and current limitations.
• Core Framework: The third part explores the core theme of ethorobotics, its evolution, and current topics, including ethical considerations, autonomy, and 'living' social robots.
• Practical Applications: The final chapter looks at ethorobotics in practice through key research projects which have had the biggest impact.
• Groundbreaking Text: This is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary text that utilizes the knowledge of key ethologists and roboticists in the field today.
• Broad Audience: It will appeal to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers focusing on animal behavior and cognition, as well as those undertaking courses in engineering, social robotics, biologically inspired robotics, AI, and human–robot and animal–robot interactions.