JRSI Cockroach Transitions

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Kaushik Jayaram. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Phone + 1 (510) 499-5164 (mobile). kjayaram@seas.harvard.edu.

Jean-Michel Mongeau. Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720.
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

Anand Mohapatra. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720.

Paul Birkmeyer. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Ronald S. Fearing. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Phone +1 (510) 642-9193 (office). ronf@eecs.berkeley.edu

Robert Full. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720-3140. Phone +1 (510) 642-9896 (office) or +1 (510) 332-7484 (mobile). rjfull@berkeley.edu

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The American cockroach, P. americana, running at high-speed collides head-on with a wall, but transitions up it rapidly. The first sequences of video are real-time. The second sequence is slowed 50X.

Supplementary Movie 2 Full_Video_s2
The American cockroach, P. americana, running at high-speed uses a body-angled strategy to transition up a wall rapidly, dissipating energy with its legs. The first sequences of video are real-time. The second sequence is slowed 50X.

Supplementary Movie 3 Full_Video_s3
Robot (DASH; Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod Robot) running at high-speed collides head-on with a wall, dissipates energy and bounces back. The first sequences of video are real-time. The second sequence is slowed 50X.

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The American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana, about 3 centimeter long, weighs under 1 gram. Photo Credit Jean-Michel Mongeau. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

 

An American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana, upside down on a ledge. Photo Credit Jean-Michel Mongeau. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

 

An American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Photo Credit Jean-Michel Mongeau. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

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Professor Daniel I. Goldman (physics of animal locomotion)
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: 404-894-0993
email: daniel.goldman@physics.gatech.edu

Professor David Hu (physics of animal locomotion and bio-inspired robots)
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: 404-894-0573
email: hu@me.gatech.edu

Professor Dario Floreano (bio-inspired robots)
School of Engineering STI,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale du Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 69 35230
email: dario.floreano@epfl.ch

Professor Robert Wood (bio-inspired robots)
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Phone: 617-496-1341
email: rjwood@seas.harvard.edu

Professor Mark Cutkosky (bio-inspired robots)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Phone: 650-721-9433 / 650-723-1644
email: cutkosky@stanford.edu

Professor Andrew Biewener (animal biomechanics)
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Concord Field Station, Harvard University
Phone: 781-275-1725, ext 105
e-mail: abiewener@oeb.harvard.edu

Professor Stacey Combes (insect biomechanics)
College of Biological Sciences,
University of California Davis
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Senior Lecturer Walter Federle (insect biomechanics)
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
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