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.
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.
*New Scientist*
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*
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