Proceedings of the first IEEE / RAS-EMBS international conference on biomedical robotics and biomechatronics

The following topics are dealt: biomimetics; biorobotics; mechatronic system for motor recovery after stroke; bio-inspired control; motor control; teleoperation of a robot arm; surgical robot; biologically-inspired robotic exploration; neurorehabilitation; microrobots; mobile robots; integrated electronics; dexterous manipulators; manipulator dynamics; micromanipulators; computer vision system for analysis of Drosophila; artificial muscle; biped walking; visual cortex model; humanoid arm kinematic modeling; tactile sensing for biomedical applications; anthropomorphic design and operation of robot; robotic training system; pathology; cardiology; robot-assisted endoscopy; visual servoing of the beating heart; redundant manipulator; neural network; and cell metabolism.