When animals walk overground, mechanical stimuli activate various receptors located in
muscles, joints and skin. Afferents from these mechanoreceptors project to neuronal …

The study of biomimetic robots and that of animal behaviors are mutually-reinforcing and
inseparable. Animals, through long-term evolutionary processes, have developed innate …

Robots are increasingly used as scientific tools to investigate animal locomotion. However,
designing a robot that properly emulates the kinematic and dynamic properties of an animal …

The domestic dog is interesting to investigate because of the wide range of body size, body
mass, and physique in the many breeds. In the last several years, the number of clinical and …

The first high-precision 3D in vivo hindlimb kinematic data to be recorded in normal dogs of
four different breeds (Beagle, French bulldog, Malinois, Whippet) using biplanar, high …

Animals dynamically adapt to varying terrain and small perturbations with remarkable ease.
These adaptations arise from complex interactions between the environment and …

In contrast to the upright trunk in humans, trunk orientation in most birds is almost horizontal
(pronograde). It is conceivable that the orientation of the heavy trunk strongly influences the …

At what inclination does climbing begin? In this paper, we investigate the transition from
walking to climbing in two species of parrot (Agapornis roseicollis and Nymphicus …

In this paper, we imitated rat-like typical motion primitives (such as pitch and yaw
movements) using a modified multijoint robotic rat. We developed a new robotic rat named …

The rat hindlimb is a frequently utilized pre-clinical model system to evaluate injuries and
pathologies impacting the hindlimbs. These studies have demonstrated the translational …