ArticleiScience2023
Rate-dependent adhesion together with limb collaborations facilitate grasshoppers reliable attachment under highly dynamic conditions.
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- What's the point? The functional role of claws in pad-bearing taxa (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae).Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Multiple forces facilitate the aquatic acrobatics of grasshopper and bioinspired robot.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Dynamic attachment is indispensable for animals to cope with unexpected disturbances. Minor attention has been paid to the dynamic performance of insects' adhesive pads. Through experiments pulling whole grasshoppers off a glass rod at varying speeds, surprising findings emerged. The feet did not always maintain contact but released and then reconnected to the substrate rapidly during leg extension, potentially reducing the shock damage to pads. As the pulling speeds increased from 1 to 400 mm/s, the maximum forces of single front tarsus insects and entire tarsi insects were nearly proportional to the 1/3 power of pulling speeds by 0.11 and 0.29 times, respectively. The force of some individuals could be even 800 times greater than their weight, which is unexpectedly high for smooth insect pads. This work not only helps us to understand the attachment intelligence of animals but is also informative for artificial attachment in extreme situations.
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