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How might bioinspired robots help us in our future?

A look at animal-like robots for use in therapy and the classroom.

We take a look into a realistic future for robots inspired by nature.

Emily Collins is a PhD student in Psychology and in this video, she explains her research which explores how human psychology and emotion can improve the biomimetic robot, Miro.

We’ll then hear insights from this week’s educators on some of the future applications of bioinspired robots.

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Building a Future with Robots

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