...Nick Gravish; George V. Lauder ABSTRACT For centuries, designers and engineers have looked to biology for inspiration. Biologically inspired robots are just one example of the application of knowledge of the natural world to engineering problems. However, recent work by biologists...

... forward propulsion and ground clearance – walking subtasks critical for safe and efficient locomotion. Targeted gait interventions that improve paretic ankle function after stroke are therefore warranted. We have developed textile-based, soft wearable robots that transmit mechanical power generated by off...

... and Sanford and Wainwright (2002) recorded a similar pattern in live bass in which gape, anterior and posterior hyoid, and suspensorium reach similar peak displacements ( Figs 6 A,B and 7 A). Under control conditions in both experiments I and II, the robotic posterior hyoid and suspensorium reached similar...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Biomechanics Fish Locomotion Robotics * Present address: Department of Biology, CB# 3280 Coker Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA. ‡ Author for correspondence ( glauder@oeb.harvard.edu ) Author contributions...

..., all tasks for which the fish use electrosense extensively. While robotic ribbon fin and artificial electrosense research has been pursued separately to reduce complications that arise when they are combined, electric fish have succeeded in their ecological niche through close coupling of their sensing...

...Christopher J. Esposito; James L. Tangorra; Brooke E. Flammang; George V. Lauder SUMMARY We designed a robotic fish caudal fin with six individually moveable fin rays based on the tail of the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus . Previous fish robotic tail designs have loosely resembled...

... al., 2007 ), it was apparent that the biological system and its movements had to be simplified if biologically relevant forces and flows were to be created using a robotic model of reasonable complexity. To determine which aspects of the movement of the biological fin were most responsible...

.... Quinn, J. Williams, M. Chadwick,M. Ford, S. Mitchell and W. Quinn for helpful discussions on this work. We are grateful to W. Schnepf and C. Seaboyer for their technical expertise in constructing the lobster robot, and to A.-L. MacDonald and the StFX animal care staff for caring for our live lobsters...

.... Recent years have seen the advent of one such new avenue that promises to greatly broaden the scope of intellectual opportunity available to researchers: the use of biorobotic models. In this paper we discuss, using aquatic propulsion in fishes as our focal example, how using robotic models can lead...