Electrostatic footpads enable agile insect-scale soft robots with trajectory control

A small legged deformable robot with multi-mode motion

(2020) Hanmin Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES

Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots

(2020) Vikram Iyer et al.   Science Robotics

Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle

(2019) Noah T. Jafferis et al.   NATURE

Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot

(2019) Yichuan Wu et al.   Science Robotics

Dynamic biological adhesion: mechanisms for controlling attachment during locomotion

(2019) Walter Federle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Controlled flight of a microrobot powered by soft artificial muscles

(2019) Yufeng Chen et al.   NATURE

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

(2019) Xiaobin Ji et al.   Science Robotics

Biomechanics of omnidirectional strikes in flat spiders

(2018) Yu Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biomechanics of predator–prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala

(2018) Alan M. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

(2018) Yoonho Kim et al.   NATURE

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

Exceptional running and turning performance in a mite

(2016) Samuel Rubin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

(2016) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

(2016) Hiroki Arazoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Controlled In-Plane Locomotion of a Hexapod Using a Single Actuator

(2015) David Zarrouk et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Rate-dependence of ‘wet’ biological adhesives and the function of the pad secretion in insects

(2015) David Labonte et al.   Soft Matter

Burst muscle performance predicts the speed, acceleration, and turning performance of Anna’s hummingbirds

(2015) Paolo S Segre et al.   eLife

High speed locomotion for a quadrupedal microrobot

(2014) Andrew T. Baisch et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Scaling and biomechanics of surface attachment in climbing animals

(2014) D. Labonte et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot

(2014) Michael T. Tolley et al.   Soft Robotics

Linking biomechanics and ecology through predator-prey interactions: flight performance of dragonflies and their prey

(2012) S. A. Combes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Walking the line: search behavior and foraging success in ant species

(2011) Jessica M.C. Pearce-Duvet et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Grip and limb force limits to turning performance in competition horses

(2010) H. Tan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Software techniques for two- and three-dimensional kinematic measurements of biological and biomimetic systems

(2008) Tyson L Hedrick   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics