... settlement, juvenile snapping shrimp develop an elastic mechanism that allows them to generate ultrafast strikes, cavitation bubbles and the highest recorded accelerations for underwater, repeated-use movements. Latch-mediated spring actuation Development Alpheidae Alpheus heterochaelis LaMSA...

... to enable, reduce or enhance variation of ultrafast movements in biological and synthetic systems. Summary: Tiny adjustments to geometric latches tune variation of ultrafast spring-propelled movements. Elastic mechanism Alpheus heterochaelis Latch-mediated spring actuation Torque reversal...

...Jacob S. Harrison; Megan L. Porter; Matthew J. McHenry; H. Eve Robinson; S. N. Patek ABSTRACT Latch-mediated spring actuation (LaMSA) is used by small organisms to produce high acceleration movements. Mathematical models predict that acceleration increases as LaMSA systems decrease in size. Adult...

... jamming ( Aguilar and Goldman, 2016 ; Huang et al., 2020 ; Umbanhowar and Goldman, 2010 ). Relative target and impactor mass in small, transient impacts is key to how these mechanisms are used in nature, the effectiveness of using latch-mediated spring actuation (LaMSA), and how small-scale impacts...

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