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Garrett Wenger is a roboticist whose work bridges bio-inspired design and autonomous mobility, with a focus on legged robots capable of navigating complex, unstructured environments. His key research areas include tail-assisted stabilization, dynamic locomotion, and semi-autonomous exploration. Wenger's most notable contribution is the development of the Jerboa robot, a tailed bipedal platform that demonstrated how a doubly actuated tail can enable stable hopping and running gaits in the frontal plane—a significant step toward agile, disturbance-rejecting locomotion in robots. This work, published in 2016, has garnered 19 citations and is foundational for researchers studying bio-inspired stabilization. Additionally, Wenger contributed to the semi-autonomous exploration of multi-floor buildings using the hexapedal robot RHex, showing how legged robots can navigate stairwells for mapping and surveillance tasks. He also participated in the US Army Research Laboratory's Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance Capstone Experiment, where his work supported advanced capabilities in autonomous ground systems. With a career rooted in practical, field-ready robotics, Wenger’s research continues to influence the design of robots that move with the agility and adaptability of animals.