Semantic Labels Guide Terrain-Specific Humanoid Behavior in Simulation
A simulator study found that semantic terrain labels guided a unified behavior-cloning policy to select flat-ground and stairway behaviors for ...
Tag: locomotion
Early land animals evolved stiff necks for locomotion, not head movement
A biomechanical model combining fossil anatomy with measurements from living sturgeon suggests that early tetrapods had stiff necks associated with ...
Electrical Stimulation of the Spine Can Restore Movement After Paralysis — But the Recipe Is Still Being Written
A new narrative review maps how electrode placement, frequency, intensity, pulse width, and stimulation mode determine what epidural spinal cord ...
Ancient Giant Amphibian Hips Reveal a Life of Lazy Swimming
Microscopic analysis of 200-million-year-old hip bones from Metoposaurus shows the giant amphibian's hindlimbs played a minor role in swimming.
Weird six-legged Cretaceous cricket preserved in amber crawled instead of jumping
A 99-million-year-old cricket trapped in Kachin amber sports unusually stout legs on all three pairs, suggesting it crawled rather than ...
First Full Skeleton of Ancient Leptarctus Reveals a Badger-Like Predator That Once Ruled Miocene North America
The first known partial skeleton of the extinct mustelid Leptarctus wortmani reveals a badger-like terrestrial generalist that occupied Miocene North ...
Knifefish-inspired robot Naiad swims like the real thing using a rippling fin and a bendable body
A knifefish-inspired robot called Naiad combines an undulating ribbon fin with an actively bendable body to achieve agile turning, vertical ...
Motor cortex holds two hidden movement programs for the leg
Long-duration microstimulation in rats reveals spatially segregated Advance and Elevation programs that steer the hindlimb forward or upward during walking.
Robots Learn to Reuse Old Experience Without Being Fooled by It
Researchers at Tsinghua University and collaborators developed Occupancy-Matching Policy Optimization, a reinforcement learning method that aligns historical robot experience with ...
Walking Isn’t Always Rhythmic: Slow Gait Switches to a Discrete Control Mode, Study Finds
A new iScience study shows that human walking shifts between discrete and rhythmic control regimes as speed changes, with converging ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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