1. A method of realizing biomimetic behavior in a robot, comprising: identifying plural physical components of a subject animal, each capable of being physically displaced with respect to each other; identifying a physical maneuver performed by at least one of the physical components of the subject animal; for each of the at least one physical components performing the identified physical maneuver, identifying changes in physical orientation over time; forming a behavioral sequence file comprised of the changes in physical orientation for each of the at least one physical components required to perform the identified physical maneuver over the time required to perform the identified physical maneuver; providing a robot comprising a body with an interior body cavity and an exterior body surface having a counterpart component for each of the identified plural physical components of the subject animal, each of the counterpart components being independently actuatable; providing a controller in association with the robot, the controller including a memory and being capable of issuing commands to actuate each of the counterpart components; forming a behavioral library in the controller memory, the behavioral library comprising, for a respective physical maneuver, a command sequence, each command of the command sequence for actuating a counterpart component to achieve a change in physical orientation therein, the command sequence causing changes in physical orientation for each of the at least one counterpart components required to perform the identified physical maneuver over the time required to perform the identified physical maneuver in accordance the behavioral sequence file; and commanding the robot to perform the identified physical maneuver through the controller issuing the respective command sequence from the behavioral library to achieve the changes in physical orientation for each of the at least one counterpart components required to perform the identified physical maneuver over the time required to perform the identified physical maneuver.