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We would like to announce a research topic<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> in Frontiers, </span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">entitled: </span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">"</span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">The Roles of Self-organization and Sensory Adaptation for Locomotion in Animals and Robots"</span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">The goal of this Research Topic is to consolidate topics related to “<span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important" class="ContentPasted0">Self-organization
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This Frontiers Research Topic invites research articles on recent results in biology and robotics in terms of experiments, measurement, analysis, design, control, and development with the goal of better understanding the role of self-organization and sensory
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">This includes, but not limited to:<br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">
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-walking, rolling, swimming, flying robots
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-control and learning algorithms</div>
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-central pattern generators</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Submission Deadline: 20 December 2022</div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted5 ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Authors interested in contributing to this special issue are advised to submit their papers via
the dedicated submission site: <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/33204/the-roles-of-self-organization-and-sensory-adaptation-for-locomotion-in-animals-and-robots" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/33204/the-roles-of-self-organization-and-sensory-adaptation-for-locomotion-in-animals-and-robots</a></span><br>
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Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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