ArticleBiology letters2025
Muscle-tendon mechanics resolve the trade-off between energy-efficient and robust locomotion.
Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Muscle-tendon mechanics resolve the trade-off between energy-efficient and robust locomotion.Biology letters · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Animals utilize elastic tendons in their limbs to store and release energy, reducing muscle effort and overall energy expenditure. At the same time, they navigate rough terrain dynamically without falling, despite significant neural delays. This ability allows them to achieve both robust and energy-efficient locomotion simultaneously-two properties often considered trade-offs in robotics. Through computational simulations, this study demonstrates how muscle-tendon mechanics can facilitate both energy-efficient and robust locomotion during perturbed vertical hopping across different muscle-tendon length configurations. Integrating muscle-tendon-like viscoelastic materials into legged robots may offer a solution to the previously perceived trade-off.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.