Clarus Goldsmith
Papers
11
Total Citations
108
H-Index
5
About
Clarus Goldsmith is a robotics and neuroscience researcher whose work sits at the fascinating intersection of insect biomechanics, neurodynamic modeling, and biologically inspired robotics. Best known for developing Drosophibot — a hexapod robot modeled after the fruit fly *Drosophila melanogaster* — Goldsmith has pioneered the use of physical robotic platforms to investigate how insect nervous systems govern legged locomotion. His landmark 2020 paper describing Drosophibot's neuromechanical simulation has accumulated 40 citations, establishing it as a foundational reference in the field. Goldsmith's research probes fundamental questions about insect motor control, including how reflex loops within the ventral nerve cord interact with higher brain centers to coordinate walking. His 2023 historical perspective on neuromorphic control of hexapod robots (17 citations) situates this work within decades of arthropod-inspired robotics, offering the field a valuable synthetic overview. More recently, he has extended his biomimetic approach beyond insects to other locomotor systems, including robotic rat hindlimbs and stick insect legs, broadening the comparative scope of his investigations. Collectively, his portfolio reflects a commitment to using robotics not merely as an engineering endpoint, but as a rigorous scientific tool for unlocking the neural principles underlying animal movement.
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Top Papers
- 1Neurodynamic modeling of the fruit fly<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>40 citations · 2020
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- 3Drosophibot: A Fruit Fly Inspired Bio-Robot13 citations · 2019
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- 7Tuning a Robot Servomotor to Exhibit Muscle-Like Dynamics5 citations · 2019
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- 10Development of a Robotic Rat Hindlimb Model3 citations · 2023