How to catch a robot rat : when biology inspires innovation / Agnès Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 226 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"Originally published in French as La bionique: quand la science imite la nature, by Dunod, 2008, Paris" -- t.p. verso.

Nature-technology transfers: from artisanry to industry -- Structures -- Processes -- Materials -- From automata to animats -- Effective actuators -- Amazing Sensors -- "Wired" control architectures -- Robotic learning -- Robotic development and evolution -- From prostheses to cyberprostheses -- Hybridizing the artificial -- Hybridizing the living.

Includes bibliographical references and index.