The design of robots that interact autonomously with the environment and exhibit complex
behaviours is an open challenge that can benefit from understanding what makes living …

Robotics and neuroscience are sister disciplines that both aim to understand how agile,
efficient, and robust locomotion can be achieved in autonomous agents. Robotics has …

The current proliferation of mobile robots spans ecological monitoring, warehouse
management and extreme environment exploration, to an individual consumer's home …

Robot designs can take many inspirations from nature, where there are many examples of
highly resilient and fault-tolerant locomotion strategies to navigate complex terrains by …

Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots have recently been explored with great potential for
biomedical applications. Existing millimeter-scale origami devices usually require separate …

Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of
behaviours. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear …

In recent years, there has been a growing need for vehicles with air-water amphibious
capacities for both military and civil applications, and the technological advances in …

Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion,
whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and …

In this letter, we present a method for integrating central pattern generators (CPGs), ie
systems of coupled oscillators, into the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to …

Quadruped animals are capable of seamless transitions between different gaits. While
energy efficiency appears to be one of the reasons for changing gaits, other determinant …