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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert J. Full is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the field of engineering, with a primary focus on biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work is documented through numerous publications in established scientific venues, including:

  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Science Robotics
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Géotechnique

Robert J. Full has contributed to topics such as adhesion, friction, and surface interactions, force microscopy techniques and applications, robotic locomotion and control, modular robots and swarm intelligence, bat biology and ecology studies, advanced materials and mechanics, and advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials.

The following recent papers highlight the breadth of their research interests:

  • Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges, 2021, Géotechnique
  • Acrobatic squirrels learn to leap and land on tree branches without falling, 2021, Science
  • Tails stabilize landing of gliding geckos crashing head-first into tree trunks, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Ultrafast, Programmable, and Electronics-Free Soft Robots Enabled by Snapping Metacaps, 2023, Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Mechanisms for Mid-Air Reorientation Using Tail Rotation in Gliding Geckos, 2021, Integrative and Comparative Biology

Collaborations are a significant element of their scientific work, with frequent coauthors including Benjamin McInroe, Sebastian Lee, Hannah S. Stuart, Nathaniel H. Hunt, and Yi Song.

Robert J. Full has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

    Kellar Autumn;Yiching A. Liang;S. Tonia Hsieh;Wolfgang Zesch

  • Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae

    Kellar Autumn;Metin Sitti;Yiching A. Liang;Anne M. Peattie

  • How Animals Move: An Integrative View

    Michael H. Dickinson;Claire T. Farley;Robert J. Full;M. A. R. Koehl

  • Templates and anchors: neuromechanical hypotheses of legged locomotion on land.

    R. J. Full;D. E. Koditschek

  • The grand challenges of Science Robotics

    Guang Zhong Yang;Jim Bellingham;Pierre E. Dupont;Peer Fischer;Peer Fischer

  • The Dynamics of Legged Locomotion: Models, Analyses, and Challenges

    Philip Holmes;Robert J. Full;Dan Koditschek;John Guckenheimer

  • Similarity in multilegged locomotion: Bouncing like a monopode

    R. Blickhan;R. J. Full

  • RHex: A Biologically Inspired Hexapod Runner

    R. Altendorfer;N. Moore;H. Komsuoḡlu;M. Buehler

  • Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

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  • Mechanics of a rapid running insect: two-, four- and six-legged locomotion.

    Robert J. Full;Michael S. Tu

  • Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

    M. J. Spenko;G. C. Haynes;J. A. Saunders;M. R. Cutkosky

  • Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot

    Yichuan Wu;Yichuan Wu;Justin K. Yim;Jiaming Liang;Jiaming Liang;Zhichun Shao

  • Dynamics of geckos running vertically

    K. Autumn;S. T. Hsieh;D. M. Dudek;J. Chen

  • An Integrative Study of Insect Adhesion: Mechanics and Wet Adhesion of Pretarsal Pads in Ants

    Walter Federle;Mathis Riehle;Adam S.G. Curtis;Robert J. Full

  • Dielectric elastomer artificial muscle actuators: toward biomimetic motion

    Ron Pelrine;Roy D. Kornbluh;Qibing Pei;Scott Stanford

  • Fast and Robust

    Jorge G. Cham;Sean A. Bailey;Jonathan E. Clark;Robert J. Full

  • Neuromechanics: an integrative approach for understanding motor control.

    Kiisa Nishikawa;Andrew A. Biewener;Andrew A. Biewener;Peter Aerts;Anna N. Ahn

  • Mechanics of six-legged runners

    Robert J. Full;Michael S. Tu

  • Dynamic stabilization of rapid hexapedal locomotion

    Devin L. Jindrich;Robert J. Full

  • Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs

    Thomas Libby;Talia Y. Moore;Evan Chang-Siu;Deborah Li

  • Leg design in hexapedal runners

    R J Full;R Blickhan;L H Ting

  • The role of the mechanical system in control: a hypothesis of self-stabilization in hexapedal runners

    T. M. Kubow;R. J. Full

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel E. Koditschek
Daniel E. Koditschek University of Pennsylvania
Ronald S. Fearing
Ronald S. Fearing University of California, Berkeley
Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas W. Kenny
Thomas W. Kenny Stanford University
Mark R. Cutkosky
Mark R. Cutkosky Stanford University
Reinhard Blickhan
Reinhard Blickhan Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Martin Buehler
Martin Buehler Boston Dynamics (United States)
Noah J. Cowan
Noah J. Cowan Johns Hopkins University
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Masayoshi Tomizuka University of California, Berkeley
Peer Fischer
Peer Fischer Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

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