This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2025, held in Sheffield, UK, during July 15-18, 2025.

The 43 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.

The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids; Soft robotics; Applications and machine learning; Cognitive and computational neuroscience; Navigation, sensors, and perception; Ethics and responsibility; Biomechanics and proprioception.

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.- Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids. .- Thermo-responsive closing and reopening artificial Venus Flytrap utilizing shape memory elastomers. .- Biology Meets Design: From Observation to Computational Design through Interdisciplinary Approaches in Bio-Inspired Design. .- A Low-Cost Split-Belt Treadmill for Studying Robotic Inter-Limb Coordination. .- Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal Muscle Activation. .- A Magnetically Actuated Crank-Slider Mechanism Embedded in a Swallowable Capsule. .- Design and Validation of a Robotic Cat Hindlimb. .- The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired Joints. .- Design and Control of a Rat Robot. .- Biologically inspired collision avoidance on a 2-wheeled robot using elementary movement detectors. .- Sensorimotor control of motor dynamics adaptations: a computational study on a human simulated arm. .- Spike Activations: A Method to Produce a Continuum of Mean Forces in BPAs. .- Bio-inspired Open Knee Joint with Ligamentous Constraints and Antagonistic Actuation. .- PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation. .- Hitting the ’Gym’: Reinforcement Learning for Control and Co-design of Exercise-Strengthened Biohybrid Robots in Simulation. .- Soft robotics. .- Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot. .- Model to Model: Understanding the Venus Flytrap Snapping Mechanism and Transferring it to a 3D-printed Bistable Soft Robotic Demonstrator. .- A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop. .- Investigating HASELs Actuators for Variable Stiffening in Soft Continuum Robots. .- Renewable Self-Folding Origami Constructed from Bioengineered Bacterial Cellulose. .- A Highly Articulated Backbone for Soft Snake Robots. .- Applications and machine learning. .- When Plants Respond: Electrophysiology and Machine Learning for Green Monitoring Systems. .- Continual learning-based neuro-plausible framework for predictive maintenance in complex engineering systems. .- Training Neural Networks by Optimizing Neuron Positions. .- Benchmarking ANN-to-SNN Conversion: Dataset-dependent Analysis of Accuracy, Latency, and Spike Efficiency. .- Transforming Origami Sculpture for Exhibition at Art Festival. .- Cognitive and computational neuroscience. .- Are liquids part of embodiment?. .- A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems. .- A biomimetic collision detection visual neural model coordinating self-and-lateral inhibitions. .- The Awareness Attribution Scale: Development, Validation, and Short-Form Reduction. .- Trap avoidance: The Potential Neural Computations Underlying Integration of Appetitive and Aversive Visual Memories in Insect Navigation. .- Mismatched Partners in Human-Robot Interaction: Biomimetic Insights on Aligning Internal States with External Expressions. .- Emotion Perception in Synthetic Aging: Divergent Insights from Human Perception and Algorithms. .- Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for Perception and Computation. .- Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Organizes Type Ia Muscle Afferents in a Synthetic Nervous System. .- Disentangling Grasp-Object Representations in the Latent Space: Toward Brain-like Affordances for Machines. .- Cybernetic Intervention in Stroke Neurorehabilitation. .- Navigation, sensors, and perception. .- Optical Waveguide-based Spider Web Enables Resilient Impact Detection and Localization. .- Visual Homing in Outdoor Robots Using Mushroom Body Circuits and Learning Walks. .- Applying familiarity taxis to route and central place navigation tasks. .- Investigating the potential for insect place learning using multi-scale CNNs. .- Navigating temporally changing magnetic environments using combinations of magnetic field properties. .- Efference copy control for MIMO systems with multiple different time delays. .- The impact of realistic eye anatomy on inse

Inhalt

.- Bioinspired robotics and biohybrids.

.- Thermo-responsive closing and reopening artificial Venus Flytrap
utilizing shape memory elastomers.

.- Biology Meets Design: From Observation to Computational Design
through Interdisciplinary Approaches in Bio-Inspired Design.

.- A Low-Cost Split-Belt Treadmill for Studying Robotic Inter-Limb
Coordination.

.- Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal
Muscle Activation.

.- A Magnetically Actuated Crank-Slider Mechanism Embedded in a
Swallowable Capsule.

.- Design and Validation of a Robotic Cat Hindlimb.

.- The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired
Joints.

.- Design and Control of a Rat Robot.

.- Biologically inspired collision avoidance on a 2-wheeled robot using
elementary movement detectors.

.- Sensorimotor control of motor dynamics adaptations: a computational
study on a human simulated arm.

.- Spike Activations: A Method to Produce a Continuum of Mean Forces
in BPAs.

.- Bio-inspired Open Knee Joint with Ligamentous Constraints and
Antagonistic Actuation.

.- PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation.

.- Hitting the 'Gym': Reinforcement Learning for Control and Co-design
of Exercise-Strengthened Biohybrid Robots in Simulation.

.- Soft robotics.

.- Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot.

.- Model to Model: Understanding the Venus Flytrap Snapping
Mechanism and Transferring it to a 3D-printed Bistable Soft Robotic
Demonstrator.

.- A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop.

.- Investigating HASELs Actuators for Variable Stiffening in Soft
Continuum Robots.

.- Renewable Self-Folding Origami Constructed from Bioengineered
Bacterial Cellulose.

.- A Highly Articulated Backbone for Soft Snake Robots.

.- Applications and machine learning.

.- When Plants Respond: Electrophysiology and Machine Learning for
Green Monitoring Systems.

.- Continual learning-based neuro-plausible framework for predictive
maintenance in complex engineering systems.

.- Training Neural Networks by Optimizing Neuron Positions.

.- Benchmarking ANN-to-SNN Conversion: Dataset-dependent Analysis
of Accuracy, Latency, and Spike Efficiency.

.- Transforming Origami Sculpture for Exhibition at Art Festival.

.- Cognitive and computational neuroscience.

.- Are liquids part of embodiment?.

.- A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems.

.- A biomimetic collision detection visual neural model coordinating
self-and-lateral inhibitions.

.- The Awareness Attribution Scale: Development, Validation, and
Short-Form Reduction.

.- Trap avoidance: The Potential Neural Computations Underlying
Integration of Appetitive and Aversive Visual Memories in Insect
Navigation.

.- Mismatched Partners in Human-Robot Interaction: Biomimetic Insights
on Aligning Internal States with External Expressions.

.- Emotion Perception in Synthetic Aging: Divergent Insights from
Human Perception and Algorithms.

.- Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for
Perception and Computation.

.- Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Organizes Type Ia Muscle Afferents
in a Synthetic Nervous System.

.- Disentangling Grasp-Object …