Physical Intelligence in Biomechanics

Abstract

The intelligence of the biological agents is enabled by their neural intelligence in their brains, in the meantime, their physical intelligence encoded in the bodies plays a nonnegligible role. The development of intelligent bio-inspired robots depends on an in-depth understanding of physical intelligence, particularly in biomechanics. Here, we briefly review the physical intelligence of biological organisms from three aspects: material, structure, and morphology. We envision that bio-inspired physical intelligence would boost the development of future intelligent lifelike machines.