3 papers
cs.RO2026
Creating a biologically more accurate spider robot to study active vibration sensing
Siyuan Sun, Eugene H. Lin, Nathan Brown +4
Orb-weaving spiders detect prey on a web using vibration sensors at leg joints. They often dynamically crouch their legs during prey sensing, likely an active sensing strategy. How…
physics.bio-ph2025
Why orb-weaving spiders use leg crouching behavior in vibration sensing of prey on a web: A physical mechanism from robophysical modeling
Eugene H. Lin, Yishun Zhou, Hsin-Yi Hung +3
Orb-weaving spiders primarily sense leg vibrations to detect and locate prey caught on their wheel-shaped webs. Biological experiments and computational modeling elucidated the phy…
q-bio.NC2025
A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans
Andrew Margolis, Andrew Gordus
Abrupt changes in behavior can often be associated with changes in underlying behavioral states. When placed off food, the foraging behavior of C. elegans can be described as a cha…