Arboreal locomotion

Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos

Ardian Jusufi, Daniel I. Goldman, Shai Revzen, Robert J. Full

Citations: 250 • 2008

Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments

William R. T. Roderick, Mark R. Cutkosky, David Lentink

Citations: 227 • 2021

Biologically inspired tree‐climbing robot with continuum maneuvering mechanism

Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

Citations: 51 • 2012

Inertial Tail Effects during Righting of Squirrels in Unexpected Falls: From Behavior to Robotics

Toshihiko Fukushima, Robert Siddall, Fabian Schwab, Séverine Toussaint, Greg Byrnes, John A. Nyakatura, Ardian Jusufi

Citations: 50 • 2021

Tails stabilize landing of gliding geckos crashing head-first into tree trunks

Robert Siddall, Greg Byrnes, Robert J. Full, Ardian Jusufi

Citations: 50 • 2021

Go Reconfigure: How Fish Change Shape as They Swim and Evolve

John H. Long, Marianne E. Porter, Robert G. Root, Chun Wai Liew

Citations: 32 • 2010

A Novel Robotic Tree Climbing Mechanism With Anti-Falling Functionality for Tree Pruning

Pengfei Gui, Liqiong Tang, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Citations: 32 • 2017

Extending Our Scientific Reach in Arboreal Ecosystems for Research and Management

Charles H. Cannon, Colby Borchetta, David L. Anderson, Gabriel Arellano, Martin Barker, Guillaume Charron, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Jeannine H. Richards, Ethan Abercrombie, Lindsay F. Banin, Ximena Tagle Casapia, Xi Chen, Polina Degtjarenko, Jane E. Dell, David Durden, Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Rebeca Hernández, Andrew D. Hirons, Chai‐Shian Kua, Hughes La Vigne, Maurice Leponce, Jun Ying Lim, Margaret D. Lowman, Andrew J. Marshall, Sean T. Michaletz, Benjamin B. Normark, Darin S. Penneys, Gerald F. Schneider, Joeri S. Strijk, Bashir B. Tiamiyu, Tara L. E. Trammell, Yalma L. Vargas‐Rodriguez, Samantha R. Weintraub, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Matthew Spenko

Citations: 31 • 2021

Semantics-guided skeletonization of upright fruiting offshoot trees for robotic pruning

Alexander You, Cindy Grimm, Abhisesh Silwal, Joseph R. Davidson

Citations: 29 • 2021

Mechanisms for Mid-Air Reorientation Using Tail Rotation in Gliding Geckos

Robert Siddall, Victor Ibañez, Greg Byrnes, Robert J. Full, Ardian Jusufi

Citations: 28 • 2021

A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants

Arjun Chandrasekhar, Deborah M. Gordon, Saket Navlakha

Citations: 22 • 2018

Motion Transfer Control From Walking to Brachiation Through Vertical Ladder Climbing for a Multi-Locomotion Robot

Zhiguo Lü, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda

Citations: 16 • 2014

Dynamic similarity predicts gait parameters for <i>Homo floresiensis</i> and the <i>Laetoli hominins</i>

Christopher L. Vaughan, Maria B. Blaszczyk

Citations: 16 • 2008

Design, Modeling, and Control of AVOCADO: A Multimodal Aerial-Tethered Robot for Tree Canopy Exploration

Steffen Kirchgeorg, Emanuele Aucone, F. Wenk, Stefano Mintchev

Citations: 14 • 2023

Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control

Justin K. Yim, Eric K. Wang, Sebastian Lee, Nathaniel H. Hunt, Robert J. Full, Ronald S. Fearing

Citations: 11 • 2025

A functional framework for interpreting phalangeal form

Edwin Dickinson, Melody W. Young, Nicholas D. Flaim, Aleksander B. Sawiec, Michael C. Granatosky

Citations: 8 • 2023

Arboreal concertina locomotion of snake robots on cylinders

Chaoquan Tang, Xin Shu, Deyuan Meng, Gongbo Zhou

Citations: 7 • 2017

PRIMATE ANATOMY, KINEMATICS, AND PRINCIPLES FOR HUMANOID DESIGN

Robert Ambrose, Catherine G. Ambrose

Citations: 7 • 2004

Free-ranging squirrels perform stable, above-branch landings by balancing using leg force and nonprehensile foot torque

Sebastian Lee, Stanley Wang, Duyi Kuang, Eric K. Wang, Justin K. Yim, Nathaniel H. Hunt, Ronald S. Fearing, Hannah S. Stuart, Robert J. Full

Citations: 6 • 2025

Sensor guided biped felling machine for steep terrain harvesting

Christopher Vincent Meaclem, Lei Shao, Richard Parker, Stefanie Gutschmidt, Christopher E. Hann, Bart Milne, Xiaoqi Chen

Citations: 6 • 2014