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In the past decade, a large number of robots has been built thatexplicitly implement biological navigation behaviours.We review these biomimetic approaches using a framework that allowsfor a common description of biological and technicalnavigation behaviour. The review shows that biomimetic systems makesignificant contributions to two fields of research: First,they provide a real world test of models of biological navigationbehaviour; second, they make new navigation mechanismsavailable for technical applications, most notably in the field ofindoor robot navigation. While simpler insect navigationbehaviours have been implemented quite successfully, the morecomplicated way-finding capabilities of vertebrates still posea challenge to current systems. 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rightsreserved.