3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Multimodal motion and behavior switching of multistable ciliary walkers
Sumit Mohanty, Paul Baconnier, Harmannus A. H. Schomaker +3
The collective motion of arrays of cilia - tiny, hairlike protrusions - drives the locomotion of numerous microorganisms, enabling multimodal motion and autonomous switching betwee…
cond-mat.soft2025
Physical synchronization of soft self-oscillating limbs for fast and autonomous locomotion
Alberto Comoretto, Harmannus A. H. Schomaker, Johannes T. B. Overvelde
Animals achieve robust locomotion by offloading regulation from the brain to physical couplings within the body. In contrast, locomotion in artificial systems often depends on cent…
cond-mat.soft2025
Embodying mechano-fluidic memory in soft machines to program behaviors upon interactions
Alberto Comoretto, Tanaya Mandke, Johannes T. B. Overvelde
Soft machines display shape adaptation to external circumstances due to their intrinsic compliance. To achieve increasingly more responsive behaviors upon interactions without rely…