Using a biologically mimicking climbing robot to explore the performance landscape of climbing in lizards

Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote

(2019) John A. Nyakatura et al.   NATURE

Joint angular excursions during cyclical behaviors differ between tetrapod feeding and locomotor systems

(2019) Michael C. Granatosky et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Using DeepLabCut for 3D markerless pose estimation across species and behaviors

(2019) Tanmay Nath et al.   Nature Protocols

Angles and waves: intervertebral joint angles and axial kinematics of limbed lizards, limbless lizards, and snakes

(2019) Gen Morinaga et al.   ZOOLOGY

Lateral undulation of the flexible spine of sprawling posture vertebrates

(2018) Wei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Robotics-inspired biology

(2018) Nick Gravish et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning

(2018) Alexander Mathis et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Diversification rates are more strongly related to microhabitat than climate in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

(2017) Melissa Bars-Closel et al.   EVOLUTION

Optimal running speeds when there is a trade-off between speed and the probability of mistakes

(2017) Ami Fadhillah Amir Abdul Nasir et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Arboreality in acacia rats (Thallomys paedulcus ; Rodentia, Muridae): gaits and gait metrics

(2017) N.-E. Karantanis et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Arboreal gaits in three sympatric rodents Apodemus agrarius , Apodemus flavicollis (Rodentia, Muridae) and Myodes glareolus (Rodentia, Cricetidae)

(2017) Nikolaos-Evangelos Karantanis et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

TimeTree: A Resource for Timelines, Timetrees, and Divergence Times

(2017) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Predicting the Movement Speeds of Animals in Natural Environments

(2015) R. S. Wilson et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Effect of Slope Degree on the Lateral Bending in Gekko geckos

(2015) Zhouyi Wang et al.   Journal of Bionic Engineering

How do the substrate reaction forces acting on a gecko’s limbs respond to inclines?

(2015) Zhouyi Wang et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

How do the substrate reaction forces acting on a gecko’s limbs respond to inclines?

(2015) Zhouyi Wang et al.   Science of Nature

Sprawl Angle in Simplified Models of Vertical Climbing: Implications for Robots and Roaches

(2015) Goran A. Lynch et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Locomotor kinematics of the gecko (Tokay gecko) upon challenge with various inclines

(2014) Zhou-Yi Wang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

(2014) A. J. Ijspeert   SCIENCE

When natural selection should optimize speed-accuracy trade-offs

(2014) Angelo Pirrone et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Lizard tricks: overcoming conflicting requirements of speed versus climbing ability by altering biomechanics of the lizard stride

(2013) C. J. Clemente et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mutually opposing forces during locomotion can eliminate the tradeoff between maneuverability and stability

(2013) S. Sefati et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Complexity Can Mitigate Performance Trade-Offs

(2011) Roi Holzman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Kinematic Analysis and Experimental Verification on the Locomotion of Gecko

(2009) Woochul Nam et al.   Journal of Bionic Engineering

Pushing versus pulling: division of labour between tarsal attachment pads in cockroaches

(2008) C. J Clemente et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES