Compliant universal grippers as adaptive feet in legged robots

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Compliant universal grippers as adaptive feet in legged robots

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Beyond undulation! Body morphology and sensing components of elongated animals and robots reveal skills to maintain competent locomotion

Morphological flexibility in robotic systems through physical polygon meshing

Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable

Identifying important sensory feedback for learning locomotion skills

Identification of the trade-off between speed and efficiency in undulatory swimming using a bio-inspired robot

Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Automatic Body Segment and Side Recognition of an Inertial Measurement Unit Sensor during Gait

Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking

The science of soft robot design: A review of motivations, methods and enabling technologies

Early decoding of walking tasks with minimal set of EMG channels

Immediate effect of ankle exoskeleton on spatiotemporal parameters and center of pressure trajectory after stroke

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control