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Record W4411947833 · doi:10.3389/frobt.2025.1600814

Editorial: Bio-inspired legged robotics: design, sensing and control

2025· editorial· en· W4411947833 on OpenAlexaff
Ting Zou

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Robotics and AI · 2025
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicRobotic Locomotion and Control
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceRoboticsArtificial intelligenceRobot

Abstract

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1. INTRODUCTIONAs a result of more than millions of years' evolution, legged animals have showcased unrivaled sophisticated mobility, maneuverability and adaptation to complex environments, and have continuously inspired legged robot design. Bio-inspired legged robots have unique potential advantages in applications which require the transversal on rough terrain, exploration of unstructured environments and navigation in complex environments with obstacles that call for advanced maneuverability and control. In addition to the exceptional mobility, legged animals have established a complex sensing system with the environment that is significantly advantageous over the state-of-the-art robot sensation. With the impressive progress of artificial intelligence and sensing technologies in recent years, the bio-inspired legged robots have also experienced notable growth, accompanied by tremendous challenges though. This special collection aims to disseminate some of the latest advancements in the design, sensing and control of bioinspired legged robots.2. OVERVIEW OF THE PAPERS IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUEThe selected papers include theoretical and experimental research work on bicycleinspired balance control method for quadruped robots [1]; advancements of the understanding of the neural activity of robust robot locomotion control from computational neuroscience within deep reinforcement learning [2]; system design of a pneumatic-driven musculoskeletal bipedal robot with its sequential jumping experimental validation [3]; investigations on the postural stabilization for a musculoskeletal robot during rapid and powerful hopping actions through the emulation of biarticular thigh muscles activation, along with experimental validation [4]; and the exploration of unknown environments using generalized autonomous mobile robots within simultaneous learning of the environments and robot transversality [5].3. CONCLUSIONIn conclusion, this special issue covers a broad range in the design, sensing and control of bio-inspired legged robots, and represents a significant step forward in the latest bioinspired legged robot research. All papers in this issue present original, inspirational ideas, with a clear indication of problem formulation and methodologies, convincing experimental validations, potential applications, and proper paper organization. The achievements presented in these papers address some of the challenges and advance research on bio-inspired legged robot design, sensing and control. We hope this Special Issue will be helpful to enhance understanding and further research in this exciting field, and promote academic and industrial attention.4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTWe thank all authors and all guest associate editors, review editors, and peer reviewers for their valuable contributions to the Special Issue ‘Bio-Inspired Legged Robotics: Design, Sensing and Control’.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.427
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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