1. Vision and Dynamic Systems.- Active Perception and Exploratory Robotics.- Object Identification and Search: Animate Vision Alternatives to Image Interpretation.- A Model of Human Feature Detection Based on Matched Filters.- Visualizing and Understanding Patterns of Brain Architecture.- Dynamic Vision.- A Model of the Acquisition of Object Representations in Human 3D Visual Recognition.- 2. Hands and Tactile Perception.- The Perception of Mechanical Stimuli Through the Skin of the Hand and Its Physiological Bases.- Borrowing Some Ideas from Biological Manipulators to Design an Artificial One.- Mechanical Design for Whole-Arm Manipulation.- Whole-Hand Manipulation: Design of an Articulated Hand Exploiting All Its Parts to Increase Dexterity.- Stable Grasping and Manipulation by a Multifinger Hand with the Capability of Compliance Control.- 3. Locomotion.- Mobile Robots — the Lessons from Nature.- Quadruped Walking Machine — Creation of the Model of Motion.- Biped Locomotion by FNS: Control Issues and an ANN Implementation.- How Fast Can a Legged Robot Run?.- Robot Biped Walking Stabilized with Trunk Motion.- 4. Intelligent Motor Control.- A New Concept of the Role of Proprioceptive and Recurrent Inhibitory Feedback in Motor Control.- Analogic Models for Robot Programming.- Structural Constraints and Computational Problems in Motor Control.- Motion Control in Intelligent Machines.- Control of Contact in Robots and Biological Systems.- Motor Control Simulation of Time Optimal Fast Movement in Man.- Constraints on Underspecified Target Trajectories.- Proposal for a Pattern Matching Task Controller for Sensor-Based Coordination of Robot Motions.- Sensory-Motor Mapping with a Sequential Network.- 5. Design Technologies.- Flexible Robot Manipulators and Grippers:Relatives of Elephant Trunks and Squid Tentacles.- Progress in the Design and Control of Pseudomuscular Linear Actuators.- Shape Memory Alloy Linear Actuators for Tendon-Based Biomorphic Actuating Systems.- CCD Retina and Neural Net Processor.- Retina-Like CCD Sensor for Active Vision.- Designing Artificial Structures from Biological Models.- Design Strategies for Gas and Odour Sensors Which Mimic the Olfactory System.- 6. Interfacing Robots to Nervous System.- Multi-Electrode Stimulation of Myelinated Nerve Fibers.- The Role of Materials in Designing Nerve Guidance Channels and Chronic Neural Interfaces.- Regeneration-Type Peripheral Nerve Interfaces for Direct Man/Machine Communication.- Integrated Bioelectronic Transducers.- 7. Robot Societies and Self-Organization.- A Robot Being.- Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems.- A Control Architecture for Cooperative Intelligent Robots.- Cellular Robotics — Construction of Complicated Systems from Simple Functions.

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