Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jul 21, 2022
Shape transformation offers the possibility of realizing devices whose 3D shape can be altered to adapt to different environments. Many applications would profit from reversible and actively controllable shape transformation together with a self-lock...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jul 20, 2022
Studies of active matter-systems consisting of individuals or ensembles of internally driven and damped locomotors-are of interest to physicists studying nonequilibrium dynamics, biologists interested in individuals and swarm locomotion, and engineer...
Scientific reports
Jul 20, 2022
Soft, worm-like robots show promise in complex and constrained environments due to their robust, yet simple movement patterns. Although many such robots have been developed, they either rely on tethered power supplies and complex designs or cannot mo...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Jul 19, 2022
This article examines the importance of integrating locomotion and cognitive information for achieving dynamic locomotion from a viewpoint combining biology and ecological psychology. We present a mammalian neuromusculoskeletal model from external se...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 12, 2022
Cebrenus Rechenburgi, a member of the huntsman spider family have inspired researchers to adopt different locomotion modes in reconfigurable robotic development. Object-of-interest perception is crucial for such a robot to provide fundamental informa...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 8, 2022
Soft robots have attracted increasing attention due to their excellent versatility and broad applications. In this article, we present a minimally designed soft crawling robot (SCR) capable of robust locomotion in unstructured pipes with various geom...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jun 16, 2022
3D locomotion of magnetic microrobots requires at least one pair of coils per axis and 3D feedback of the position of the microrobot. This results in voluminous systems with high-power usage and a small working space, which require complex and expens...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jun 16, 2022
Serially connected robots are promising candidates for performing tasks in confined spaces such as search and rescue in large-scale disasters. Such robots are typically limbless, and we hypothesize that the addition of limbs could improve mobility. H...
Nature communications
Jun 14, 2022
Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots have recently been explored with great potential for biomedical applications. Existing millimeter-scale origami devices usually require separate geometrical components for locomotion and functions. Additionall...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 12, 2022
Currently, there is an intensive development of bipedal walking robots. The most known solutions are based on the use of the principles of human gait created in nature during evolution. Modernbipedal robots are also based on the locomotion manners of...