Invited talk at the International Expert Days Servicerobotics organized by Schunk : http://www.schunk.com/expertdays_2009/ at Februar 18. The title of the talk is: “Anthropomorphism as a Pervasive Design Concept for a Robotic Assistant “Abstract:The structural characteristics of living organisms are determined by their envi-ronment and the resulting demands on their behavior. Biological systems exhibit characteristics such as autonomy and adaptivity, based on a powerful sensor mechanisms filtering only relevant signals, in order to directly generate motor behavior, to control a metabolism, or to build internal representations of a complex environment.
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