Due to their inherent compliance, soft actuated joints are becoming increasingly important
for robotic applications, especially when human-robot-interactions are expected. Several of …

Benthic operation plays a vital role in underwater applications, where crawling robots have
advantages compared with turbine-based underwater vehicles, in locomotion accuracy …

Bio-inspired design (BID) approaches have provided numerous novel proposals for
innovative design. Meanwhile, it resulted in an explosion of alternatives. Choosing a small …

Highlights•Temperature affected vibratory, not visual, courtship in a desert jumping
spider.•Male mass and visual, not vibratory, courtship impacted female mate …

A six-legged spider robot is a complex object from the point of view of the problem of
synthesizing a system for controlling its movement. To synthesize an advanced control …

Important aspects of spider locomotion rely on a hydraulic mechanism. So far, this has not
been theoretically analysed. In this work, the flow mechanism of a main hydraulic joint in a …

Spiders lack extensor muscles in the main joints of their walking legs (femur–patella and
tibia–metatarsus joint, respectively). These leg joints are extended by a rise of hemolymph …

Fluidic actuators allow versatile, agile, and powerful motions and are commonly applied in
robotics and automation. Likewise, many biological systems use fluidic actuators …

Spiders from four families [Atrax and Hadronyche (Hexathelidae), Loxosceles (Sicariidae),
Latrodectus (Theridiidae) and Phoneutria (Ctenidae), with several species each] may cause …

Although being one of the most well-known animal groups, functional and constructional
aspects of scorpions and especially of their tail (metasoma) have so far been overlooked …