Metachronal motion is used across a wide range of organisms for a diverse set of functions.
However, despite its ubiquity, analysis of this behavior has been difficult to generalize …

This article presents the development of a novel bionic robot, which is inspired by agile and
fast mantis shrimp in the ocean. The developed bionic mantis shrimp robot has ten rigid …

Mantis shrimp swim via metachronal rowing, a pattern in which the pleopods (swimming
limbs) stroke sequentially, starting with the last pair and followed by anterior neighbors. A …

In drag-based swimming, individual propulsors operating at low Reynolds numbers (where
viscous forces dominate over inertial forces) must execute a spatially asymmetric stroke to …

Metachronal rowing is a biological propulsion mechanism employed by many swimming
invertebrates (eg copepods, ctenophores, krill and shrimp). Animals that swim using this …

Numerous species of aquatic invertebrates, including crustaceans, swim by oscillating
multiple closely spaced appendages. The coordinated, out-of-phase motion of these …

Metachronal propulsion is commonly seen in organisms with the caridoid facies body plan,
that is, shrimp-like organisms, as they beat their pleopods in an adlocomotory sequence …

As a strategy for creating fluid flow, metachronal motion is widespread across sizes and
species, including a broad array of morphologies, length scales, and coordination patterns …

Numerous aquatic invertebrates use drag-based metachronal rowing for swimming, in which
closely spaced appendages are oscillated starting from the posterior, with each appendage …

Many organisms use flexible appendages for locomotion, feeding, and other functional
behaviors. The efficacy of these behaviors is determined in large part by the fluid dynamics …