— Recent studies on the insect water strider showed that the insect heavily relies on surface tension force to stay afloat. Inspired by this insect, water strider robots have be...
This paper describes the kinematic analysis of two different cricket locomotion modalities, and the use of these data in a dynamic simulation to combine and simplify the insect...
Sathaporn Laksanacharoen, Alan J. Pollack, Gabriel...
hibition: Extended Abstract Social insects, such as ants and termites, collectively build large and complex structures, with many individuals following simple rules and no centrali...
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Ra...
— Mechanisms utilizing rigid links and relatively small flexural joints are very suitable for fabrication at the meso scale. The Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) project at U...