S. Jay Olshansky

The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.

American Scientist

Hu Shih

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Chinese Philosopher

Brendan Iribe

Locomotion can be uncomfortable in VR, but a number of developers have figured out how to do some subtle locomotion.

American Businessman

Refers to physical capacities that enable movement.

Physical Action

Doesn't imply use of vehicles or machines for moving.

Not Transport

Often used with 'enable,' 'restrict,' or 'affect' to explain change in mobility.

Common Verbs

Stresses the biological energy used for movement by organisms.

Biological Aspect

Focuses on self-powered movement without external help.

Independent Movement

Commonly used in academic or scientific discussions about organisms.

Academic Term

References older forms of mechanized transportation.

Historic Travel

Often associated with the history of transportation innovations.

Mechanical Context

Can show evolution of transport from past to present.

Past to Present

 it can still run for a while, showing that just the lower part, spinal cord and body, already solve a big part of locomotion. Now, understanding how this works is very complex, because first of all, recording activity in the spinal cord is very difficult. It's much easier to implant electrodes in the motor cortex than in the spinal cord, because it's protected by the vertebrae.

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 But what are the real challenges of engineering these ants? Well, first of all, how do we get the capabilities of an ant in a robot at the same size scale? Well, first we need to figure out how to make them move when they're so small. We need mechanisms like legs and efficient motors in order to support that locomotion,

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 remember that it may save your life we'd use the technologies used for neural engineering basically the stuff that is used for building cardiac pacemakers we implant these to insects and we try to control their locomotion they are moving

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 on very convincing evidence but there was one point i had to concede that was that we did not have a plausible mode of locomotion for this animal you know we kind of said well maybe it's kind of paddling with its hind feet but

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 Proteins can interact with these fibrils to slide them together, stiffening the tissue, or apart, softening it. This versatile tissue has many it aids in efficient locomotion, enables sea cucumbers to fit into small spaces,

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 in order to keep itself stabilized and propelled. And here's a bigger robot that's got such good locomotion using its legs, that it can go in deep snow. This is about 10 inches deep, and it doesn't really have any trouble.

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 of a scientist is perseverance. We insisted. We refined our paradigm, and after several months of training, the otherwise paralyzed rat could stand, and whenever she decided, initiated full weight-bearing locomotion

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 dr angela horner is the world's leading expert in ferret locomotion