This review article aims to address common research questions in hexapod robotics. How
can we build intelligent autonomous hexapod robots that can exploit their biomechanics …

Robot designs can take many inspirations from nature, where there are many examples of
highly resilient and fault-tolerant locomotion strategies to navigate complex terrains by …

In the past two decades, unmanned amphibious robots have proven the most promising and
efficient systems ranging from scientific, military, and commercial applications. The …

Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with multiple rotors, or multicopters, have many promising
applications ranging from environmental monitoring, agricultural inspection, to package …

Now more than ever, researchers are rethinking the way robots are designed and controlled—
from the algorithms that govern their actions to the very atomic structure of the materials they …

Small aerial robots usually face a common challenge: they can only fly for a short time due to
their limited onboard energy supply. To tackle this issue, one promising solution is to endow …

For robots to successfully locomote in different environments, it is better to equip them with
multiple modes of locomotion. Multimodal locomotion for existing robotic systems is …

Chinese mitten crab has unique limb structures composed of a hard exoskeleton and
flexible muscles. They enable the crab to locomote adaptively and safely on various terrains …

The viability of using Shape Memory Polymers (SMP), and their composites, as sensors and
actuators has tremendously increased over the years as a result of the new emerging …

This paper presents the static balancing design of a special reconfigurable linkage that can
switch between two one-degree-of-freedom (DoF) working configurations. We will show that …