{"id":145667,"date":"2022-09-05T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/clarifying-the-physics-of-walking-for-multi-legged-creatures-its-a-lot-like-slithering"},"modified":"2022-09-05T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:25:50","slug":"clarifying-the-physics-of-walking-for-multi-legged-creatures-its-a-lot-like-slithering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/clarifying-the-physics-of-walking-for-multi-legged-creatures-its-a-lot-like-slithering","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying the physics of walking: For multi-legged creatures, it\u2019s a lot like slithering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmV_idFBRaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The physics of walking for multi-legged animals and robots is simpler than previously thought. That is the finding described by a team of roboticists, physicists and biologists in the Sept. 5 issue of the <i><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>,<\/i> in a paper titled \u201cWalking is like slithering: a unifying, data-driven view of locomotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important because it will allow roboticists to build much simpler models to describe the way robots walk and move through the world,\u201d said paper coauthor Nick Gravish, a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers had previously studied ant walking and wanted to see how their findings could be applied to robots. In the process, they discovered a new mathematical relationship between walking, skipping, slithering and swimming in viscous fluids for multi-legged animals and bots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physics of walking for multi-legged animals and robots is simpler than previously thought. That is the finding described by a team of roboticists, physicists and biologists in the Sept. 5 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper titled \u201cWalking is like slithering: a unifying, data-driven view of locomotion.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}