Using a biologically mimicking climbing robot to explore the performance landscape of climbing in lizards.

ABSTRACT: Locomotion is a key aspect associated with ecologically relevant tasks for many organisms, therefore, survival often depends on their ability to perform well at these tasks. Despite this significance, we have little idea how different performance tasks are weighted when increased performance in one task comes at the cost of decreased performance in another. Additionally, the ability for natural systems to become optimized to perform a specific task can be limited by structural, historic or functional constraints. Climbing lizards provide a good example of these constraints as climbing ability likely requires the optimization of tasks which may conflict with one another such as increasing speed, avoiding falls and reducing the cost of transport (COT). Understanding how modifications to the

SUBMITTER: Schultz JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8059955 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature