Tag: gait

  • Nation & World

    Making eight legs look like six

    Using high-speed cameras, Harvard researchers have shown that ant-mimicking jumping spiders don’t walk on six legs in an attempt to appear more ant-like, but instead walk with all eight and take tiny, 100-millisecond pauses to lift their front legs to make them resemble ant antennae.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients

    Wyss Institute’s soft, wearable, robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    All goes swimmingly

    Using simple hydrodynamics, a team of Harvard researchers was able to show that a handful of principles govern how virtually every animal — from the tiniest fish to birds to the largest whales — propel themselves through the water.

    4 minutes