Limbless locomotors, from microscopic worms to macroscopic snakes, traverse complex,
heterogeneous natural environments typically using undulatory body wave propagation …

Artificial active matters on a macroscopic scale, including vibrating particles, robots, and
camphor boats, have attracted increasing attentions due to their uniform properties, rich and …

Miniature robots provide unprecedented access to confined environments and show
potential for applications such as search‐and‐rescue and high‐value asset inspection. The …

Limbless animals like snakes inhabit most terrestrial environments, generating thrust to
overcome drag on the elongate body via contacts with heterogeneities. The complex body …

Motivated by a possible convergence of terrestrial limbless locomotion strategies ultimately
determined by interfacial effects, we show how both 3D gait alterations and locomotory …

Robots still struggle to dynamically traverse complex 3D terrain with many large obstacles,
an ability required for many critical applications. Body–obstacle interaction is often inevitable …

Robotic spacecrafts have helped expand the reach for many planetary exploration missions.
Most ground mobile planetary exploration robots use wheeled or modified wheeled …

Randomness is common in biological and artificial systems, resulting either from
stochasticity of the environment or noise in organisms or devices themselves. In locomotor …

Natural environments are often filled with obstacles and disturbances. Traditional navigation
and planning approaches normally depend on finding a traversable “free space” for robots …

Animals like snakes use traveling waves of body bends to move in multi-component
terrestrial terrain. Previously we studied [Schiebel et al., PNAS, 2019] a desert specialist …