Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can
strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to …

Neuromechanics seeks to understand how muscles, sense organs, motor pattern
generators, and brain interact to produce coordinated movement, not only in complex terrain …

The world market of mobile robotics is expected to increase substantially in the next 20 yr,
surpassing the market of industrial robotics in terms of units and sales. Important fields of …

A new approach for climbing hard vertical surfaces has been developed that allows a robot
to scale concrete, stucco, brick and masonry walls without using suction or adhesives. The …

We describe the design features that underlie the operation of iSprawl, a small (0.3 kg)
autonomous, bio-inspired hexapod that runs at 15 body-lengths/second (2.3 m/s). These …

Physiological studies in walking cats have indicated that two sensory signals are involved in
terminating stance in the hind legs: one related to unloading of the leg and the other to hip …

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 …

We have developed several innovative designs for a new kind of robot that uses a
continuous wave of peristalsis for locomotion, the same method that earthworms use, and …

Morphology plays an important role in behavioral and locomotion strategies of living and
artificial systems. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not …

Computer simulations are being used increasingly to gain an understanding of the complex
interactions between the neuronal, sensory, muscular and mechanical components of …