{"id":21085,"date":"2021-08-02T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=21085"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:34:17","slug":"researchers-built-model-that-mimics-salamanders-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/researchers-built-model-that-mimics-salamanders-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers built model that mimics salamander\u2019s walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers at Tohoku University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have decoded the flexible motor control mechanisms underlying salamander walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animals with four feet can navigate complex, unpredictable, and unstructured environments. The impressive ability is thanks to their body-limb coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The salamander is an excellent specimen for studying body-limb coordination mechanisms. It is an amphibian that uses four legs and walks by swaying itself from left to right in a motion known as undulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-675x435.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21086\" width=\"841\" height=\"542\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-675x435.png 675w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-621x400.png 621w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-760x490.png 760w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-180x116.png 180w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png 1100w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their nervous system is simpler than those of mammals, and they change their walking pattern according to the speed at which they are moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To decode the salamander&#8217;s movement, researchers led by Professor Akio Ishiguro of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University modeled the salamander&#8217;s nervous system mathematically and physically simulated the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In making the model, the researchers hypothesized that the legs and the body are controlled to support other motions by sharing sensory information. They then reproduced the speed-dependent gait transitions of salamanders through computer simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We hope this finding provides insights into the essential mechanism behind the adaptive and versatile locomotion of animals,&#8221; said Ishiguro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers are confident their discovery will aid the development of robots that can move with high agility and adaptability by flexibly changing body-limb coordination patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research was published in journal Frontiers in Neurorobotics on July 30, 2021 and supported by Human Frontier Science Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Tohoku University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have decoded the flexible motor control mechanisms underlying salamander walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",1100,709,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-621x400.png",621,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-768x495.png",750,483,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-675x435.png",675,435,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",1100,709,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",1100,709,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",1100,709,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",870,561,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",600,387,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",600,387,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-760x490.png",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-550x360.png",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander-95x65.png",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",640,413,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",96,62,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/decoding-salamander.png",150,97,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/it\/\" rel=\"category tag\">IT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}