The emergent physics of animal locomotion

A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

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Insect Flight: From Newton's Law to Neurons

(2016) Z. Jane Wang   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Collective Flow Enhancement by Tandem Flapping Wings

(2015) Nick Gravish et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Luminance-dependent visual processing enables moth flight in low light

(2015) S. Sponberg et al.   SCIENCE

Bioinspired flight control

(2014) David Lentink   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Fire ants actively control spacing and orientation within self-assemblages

(2014) P. C. Foster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies

(2014) G. J. Berman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Instantaneous kinematic phase reflects neuromechanical response to lateral perturbations of running cockroaches

(2013) Shai Revzen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

A comparative approach to closed-loop computation

(2013) E Roth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Swimming in the desert

(2013) Yang Ding et al.   PHYSICS TODAY

The length-tension curve in muscle depends on lattice spacing

(2013) C. D. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Cross-Bridge Spring: Can Cool Muscles Store Elastic Energy?

(2013) N. T. George et al.   SCIENCE

Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

(2013) K. Y. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

The NIH BRAIN Initiative

(2013) T. R. Insel et al.   SCIENCE

Optogenetics

(2010) Karl Deisseroth   NATURE METHODS

Neuromechanical response of musculo-skeletal structures in cockroaches during rapid running on rough terrain

(2008) S. Sponberg et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans

(2008) Greg J. Stephens et al.   PLoS Computational Biology