ANTHROPOMORPHISM has served as a useful guiding principle for design and control of robotic systems in man’s pursuit of “making a machine in his own image.” The renewed interest in recent years arises from the need to develop human-like robotic and mechatronic systems (and subsystems) to operate in, interact with, and cohabit human-built environments. From a morphological perspective, numerous novel designs have been proposed ranging from prosthetic/robotic hands, for performing dexterous grasping and manipulatory tasks, to lower limb exoskeletons and walking robots, for enabling ambulation in our homes and the outdoors. The new generations of anthropomorphic mechatronic systems (and subsystems) capitalize on advances in miniaturization of sensing/actuation and the ongoing revolutions in embedded computation and wireless communication.

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