New findings suggest sideways walking in crabs is a rare but innovative trait originating from a common ancestor, and provide a framework for understanding how animal locomotion diversifies and ...

Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs.Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint ...

Researchers have created a bio-inspired quadruped locomotion framework with remarkable adaptability. The novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) framework, inspired by animal locomotion, enhances ...

With the help of a form of machine learning called deep reinforcement learning (DRL), the EPFL robot notably learned to transition from trotting to pronking – a leaping, arch-backed gait used by ...

Muybridge and motion photography = Muybridge und die Bewegungsfotografie = Muybridge et la chronophotographie / Hans Christian Adam -- The Attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs ...

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was one of the pioneers of motion photography. Using a complex experimental camera setup and innovative camera technology he succeeded for the first time in the history ...

Animal flow exercises involve a range of motion that can significantly improve flexibility and mobility. By mimicking animal ...

Researchers questioned if coordinated group movements by animals moving through a fluid could reduce the energy cost of locomotion. By combining biomechanics and bioenergetics the researchers found ...

Concept: Researchers at the Institut Mines-Télécom Atlantique in Nantes, France, Tohoku University in Japan, and Université de Sherbrooke in Canada have collaborated to build ‘AgnathaX’, a long, ...

Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer known for his groundbreaking work in the field of motion-picture projection. Using multiple cameras, Muybridge famously captured the gait of a trotting ...

A school of giant danio (Devario aequipinnatus) swimming in the ‘water treadmill’ ­– swim-tunnel respirometer – for the measurements of the whole-animal metabolic rate while the water velocity is ...