Agility and trajectory control are two desirable features for robotics, but they become very
challenging for soft robots without rigid structures to support rapid manipulations. Here, a …

Cheetahs achieve high‐speed movement and unique athletic gaits through the contraction
and expansion of their limbs during the gallop. However, few soft robots can mimic their …

Eye size affects many aspects of visual function, but eyes are costly to grow and maintain.
The allometry of eyes can provide insight into this trade-off, but this has mainly been …

Many animals use self-built structures (extended phenotypes) to enhance body functions,
such as thermoregulation, prey capture or defence. Yet, it is unclear whether the evolution of …

Mimicking living creatures, soft robots exhibit incomparable adaptability and various
attractive new features. However, untethered insect-scale soft robots are often plagued with …

Running speed degradation of insect-scale (less than 5 cm) legged microrobots after
carrying payloads has become a bottleneck for microrobots to achieve high untethered …

Jumping in animals presents an interesting locomotory strategy as it requires the generation
of large forces and accurate timing. Jumping in arachnids is further complicated by their …

Jumping spiders are proficient jumpers that use jumps in a variety of behavioural contexts.
We use high speed, high resolution video to measure the kinematics of a single regal …

We examine the distributed visual system of spiders, an ancient and diverse lineage of
predators. Across families, prey-capture strategies include active pursuit, sit-and-wait …

Although many arthropods have the ability to voluntarily lose limbs, how these animals
rapidly adapt to such an extreme perturbation remains poorly understood. It is thought that …