Outside laboratory conditions and human-made structures, animals rarely encounter flat
surfaces. Instead, natural substrates are uneven surfaces with height variation that ranges …

The operational basis for the generation of a functional motor output during walking is
formed by the interaction between central pattern generating networks, local feedback from …

Swarms of ground-based robots are presently limited to relatively simple environments,
which we attribute in part to the lack of locomotor capabilities needed to traverse complex …

This paper reports on the design, integration, and performance evaluation of a novel four-
leg/four-wheel transformable mobile robot, Quattroped. In contrast to most hybrid platforms …

To navigate in the world, an animal's brain must produce commands to move, change
direction, and negotiate obstacles. In the insect brain, the central complex integrates multiple …

This paper describes novel highly mobile small robots called" mini-whegs" that can run and
jump. They are derived from our larger whegs series of robots, which benefit from abstracted …

Rapid, vertically climbing cockroaches produced climbing dynamics similar to geckos,
despite differences in attachment mechanism,foot or toe'morphology and leg number. Given …

SUMMARY A musculo-skeletal structure can stabilize rapid locomotion using neural and/or
mechanical feedback. Neural feedback results in an altered feedforward activation pattern …

Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range
from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by …

This paper describes the latest additions to the Mini-Whegs™ series of small robots. These
new robots are fully enclosed, measure 9 to 10 cm long, and range in weight from 90 g to …