Legged robotic technologies have moved out of the lab to operate in real environments,
characterized by a wide variety of unpredictable irregularities and disturbances, all this in …

Outside laboratory conditions and human-made structures, animals rarely encounter flat
surfaces. Instead, natural substrates are uneven surfaces with height variation that ranges …

Walking and running have fundamentally different biomechanics, which makes developing
devices that assist both gaits challenging. We show that a portable exosuit that assists hip …

Lower-limb exoskeletons could improve the mobility of people with disabilities, older adults,
workers, first responders, and military personnel. Despite recent advances, few products are …

Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable
their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of …

The need to move over uneven terrain is a daily challenge. In order to face unexpected
perturbations due to changes in the morphology of the terrain, the central nervous system …

To walk efficiently over complex terrain, humans must use vision to tailor their gait to the
upcoming ground surface without interfering with the exploitation of passive mechanical …

In the natural world, legged animals regularly run across uneven terrain with remarkable
ease. To gain understanding of how running on uneven terrain affects the biomechanics and …

Humans often traverse real-world environments with a variety of surface irregularities and
inconsistencies, which can disrupt steady gait and require additional effort. Such effects …

Abstract Human tracks at White Sands National Park record more than one and a half
kilometres of an out-and-return journey and form the longest Late Pleistocene-age double …