PNAS Cockroach Wedging
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PUBLICITY INFORMATION FOR: Kaushik Jayaram, Robert J. Full (2016) Cockroaches traverse crevices, crawl rapidly in confined spaces, and inspire a soft, legged robot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1514591113
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Kaushik Jayaram. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA. Phone ++1 510 643 5183; Current address: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. e-mail: kaushikj@berkeley.edu, kjayaram@seas.harvard.edu. kaushikjayaram.com
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A side view of an American cockroach, P. americana, traversal a 3 mm crevice. Playback sequences are real-time and 10× slowed.
Supplementary Movie 2 Full_Video_s2
A side view of an American cockroach, P. americana, crawling in a confined space at 12, 9, 6 and 4 mm crevice heights. Playback sequences are real-time and 20× slowed.
Supplementary Movie 3 Full_Video_s3
A side view of an American cockroach, P. americana, undergoing a compression materials test in a specially constructed apparatus attached to a materials testing machine. Playback of compression sequences are real-time while the recovery sequence is 20x faster.
Supplementary Movie 4 Full_Video_s4
A demonstration of the compliance of our robot’s shell, passive sprawling mechanism of flexible spine and a side view of our robot prototype running unrestricted and crawling in a confined space at 35 mm crevice height. Playback sequences are as indicated in video.
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A lone cockroach squeezing through a 3 mm crevice under room door. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
Three cockroaches squeezing though a 3 mm crevice under a room door at different stages of traversal. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
Two similarly sized adult cockroaches, one standing and the other emerging from a vertically confined space between two flat plates 4 mm apart. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
The compressible robot, CRAM with a complaint, yet tough cockroach. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
The compressible robot, CRAM with a complaint, yet tough cockroach. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
The compressible robot, CRAM with a complaint, yet tough cockroach. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
Cockroach about to be stepped on by a boot. Photo Credit Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.
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