A lizard and tiger resting on a tree trunk.
A lizard and tiger resting on a tree trunk.
Lizard on the leaves of the rainforest.
Lizard on the leaves of the rainforest.
Lizard robot image from Ardian Jusufi laboratory
Lizard Tiger Robot Image from Ardian Jusufi Laboratory Lizard Tiger Robot Image from Ardian Jusufi Laboratory On September 2, a study published in "Communication-Biology" pointed out that the Asian scorpion tiger (also known as the Asian scorpion tiger) sliding between trees may use its tail to stabilize when landing
In order to better understand the importance of the lizard’s tail swinging in the landing, Ardian Jusufi of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany and his colleagues used a high-speed camera to photograph 30 wild lizards jumping from a high platform to a nearby one.
The research team observed that the lizard would first hit the tree with its head and then swing its body and tail backwards
In order to study how the lizard uses the tail swing to prevent falling, the author developed two flexible robots similar to the lizard and launched them with a catapult to simulate the process from sliding to high-speed landing
They found that in the experiment, the probability of a tailless robot successfully landing on a vertical surface was only 15%, while the success probability of a tailed robot was 55%
The author believes that a structure similar to the tail of a lizard may help flying robots (such as drones) to stabilize when landing on vertical surfaces
Related paper information: https://doi.
https://doi.
org/10.
1038/s42003-021-02378-6
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