- Preface
- Part I. Biological Inspiration for Nature’s Building and Repair Process
- 1. Bioinspired Devices as Parts of Complex Systems
- 2. How Nature Builds: Physical Law, Morphogenesis, and Dynamical Systems
- 3. What Nature Builds: Materials and Devices
- 4. Building Devices the Way That Nature Does
- Part II. Structure-Function, Development, and Vulnerabilities of Nervous Systems
- 5. Nature’s Nervous System Networks
- 6. Human Nervous System: Development and Vulnerability
- 7. How Nature Remodels and Repairs Neural Circuits
- Part III. Understanding and Emulating Nature’s Responses to Injury or Damage
- 8. Neuroprosthetics: The Embodiment of Devices
- 9. Neurorehabilitation for Remodeling and Repairing Injured Nervous Systems
- 10. Toward Devices That Are Seamless Parts of Collective, Adaptive, and Emergent Systems
- References
- Index


Bioinspired Devices
Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process
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Publication Date: 01/08/2018
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