Recent advances in the design and implementation of wearable resistive, capacitive, and
optical strain sensors are summarized herein. Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have …

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 …

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 …

Extracting behavioral measurements non-invasively from video is stymied by the fact that it is
a hard computational problem. Recent advances in deep learning have tremendously …

BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

The intersection of paleontology and biomechanics can be reciprocally illuminating, hel**
to improve paleobiological knowledge of extinct species and furthering our understanding of …

Wheeled-legged robots have the potential for highly agile and versatile locomotion. The
combination of legs and wheels might be a solution for any real-world application requiring …

Our paper proposes a model predictive controller as a single-task formulation that
simultaneously optimizes wheel and torso motions. This online joint velocity and ground …

In early 2016, we had the opportunity to test a pair of sprawling posture robots, one
designed to mimic a crocodile and another designed to mimic a monitor lizard, along the …