Nature protocols
Dec 14, 2023
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying environments. These soft millirobots may be useful for medical applications wher...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Dec 5, 2023
Conventional catheter- or probe-based in vivo biomedical sensing is uncomfortable, inconvenient, and sometimes infeasible for long-term monitoring. Existing implantable sensors often require an invasive procedure for sensor placement. Untethered soft...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 17, 2023
Robots can traverse sparse obstacles by sensing environmental geometry and avoiding contact with obstacles. However, for search and rescue in rubble, environmental monitoring through dense vegetation, and planetary exploration over Martian and lunar ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 13, 2023
This article presents a multimodal steerable earthworm-inspired soft robot based on vacuum and positive pressure powered pneumatic actuators capable of crawling both inside pipelines and on planar surfaces. The optimized modular vacuum pressure-drive...
Physics of life reviews
Nov 7, 2023
The control of movement in living organisms represents a fundamental task that the brain has evolved to solve. One crucial aspect is how the nervous system organizes the transformation of sensory information into motor commands. These commands lead t...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Nov 6, 2023
The transition from sessile suspension to active mobile detritus feeding in early echinoderms (c.a. 500 Mya) required sophisticated locomotion strategies. However, understanding locomotion adopted by extinct animals in the absence of trace fossils an...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Oct 11, 2023
This research introduces a novel, highly precise, and learning-free approach to locomotion mode prediction, a technique with potential for broad applications in the field of lower-limb wearable robotics. This study represents the pioneering effort to...
Science advances
Sep 20, 2023
Artificial muscles are promising in soft exoskeletons, locomotion robots, and operation machines. However, their performance in contraction ratio, output force, and dynamic response is often imbalanced and limited by materials, structures, or actuati...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Aug 26, 2023
Legged robots that can instantly change motor patterns at different walking speeds are useful and can accomplish various tasks efficiently. However, state-of-the-art control methods either are difficult to develop or require long training times. In t...
The Journal of experimental biology
Aug 11, 2023
Animal locomotion is the result of complex and multi-layered interactions between the nervous system, the musculo-skeletal system and the environment. Decoding the underlying mechanisms requires an integrative approach. Comparative experimental biolo...