Eugene C. Goldfield is Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature's Assembly and Repair
Process is a reliquary of nature's wonders, exploring how
cells, organisms, and living systems form and function. Goldfield
explains how new insights about these natural building processes
are now being leveraged to create 'biologically inspired'
engineering innovations, from medical devices to robot swarms.
After reading this book, you will look at the world in an entirely
new way. -- Donald E. Ingber, Wyss Institute for Biologically
Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Bioinspired Devices takes us on a fascinating journey
between nature and engineering. Goldfield extracts key principles
for how living systems grow and function and proposes that they be
applied to the design of better machines and prostheses. Combining
an incredibly rich set of observations from neuroscience,
bioengineering, biomechanics, ecology, and more, this book is a
stimulating read for anyone interested in living systems and the
construction of biologically-inspired devices. -- Auke Ijspeert,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne
Bioinspired Devices explores modern bioengineering's dance
between technology and nature, illuminating how the concepts of
resiliency, self-repair, and environmental harmony are more evident
today than ever before. -- Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University
Bioinspired Devices presents an original, erudite
perspective on how to emulate fundamental characteristics of living
systems-self repair, robustness, development, and emergence-in
order to engineer bioinspired solutions to neurological disorders.
Goldfield builds on his extensive experience with dynamical
systems, at Boston Children's Hospital and via collaborations with
Harvard's Wyss Institute, to discuss challenges and opportunities
in unravelling and emulating nature's principles to build
neuroprosthetic devices and pathways to rehabilitation. --
Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London
The book is fact-packed and beautifully crafted...Bioinspired
Devices provides a fascinating way into one of biomedicine's
most complex fields. While Goldfield writes with both erudition and
elegance, he has a wonderfully popular touch and a keen sense of
humor that has him drawing on Wallace and Gromit and Star
Trek (and more) to help with key explanations. It is a book
that will not only leave you with a deep respect for research into
copying nature, but also in awe of nature itself and how it does so
much with so little. -- Adrian Barnett * New Scientist *
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