The graceful and agile movements of animals are difficult to analyze and emulate because
locomotion is the result of a complex interplay of many components: the central and …

A healthy gait pattern depends on an array of biomechanical features, orchestrated by the
central nervous system for economy and stability. Injuries and other pathologies can alter …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

The theory to analyze the relationship between the position and attitude of a link and the
joint angles of a mechanism is called Kinematics. It is the basis on which robotics is formed …

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman's notes, he saw it as a" record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however …

An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of
intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing …

The fields of control and robotics are working toward the development of bipedal robots that
can realize walking motions with the stability and agility of a human being. Dynamic models …

Passive-dynamic walkers are simple mechanical devices, composed of solid parts
connected by joints, that walk stably down a slope. They have no motors or controllers, yet …

Bipedal locomotion is among the most difficult challenges in control engineering. Most
books treat the subject from a quasi-static perspective, overlooking the hybrid nature of …

DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE; An Advanced Textbook; Eighth Edition Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003387145-8
Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …