Primate locomotion is the study of movements and postures in arboreal and terrestrial environments. Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet.

Q: Your field of research is primate locomotion. Why are you particularly interested in the spine? A: Most of the work that's been done on the primate body is focused on the limbs -- which are ...

But we are by no means perfectly adapted to bipedal locomotion. Our spines are a heritage from distant ancestors who carried themselves horizontally, in water and on land. In those ancient ...

Introduction to the modeling, analysis, planning, and control of legged robotic locomotion systems. Topics covered include: basic components of robotic systems, selection of coordinate frames, ...

Dan Snow examines the development of the railways from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century to the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Find out more about ...

For most of the past 163 years Locomotion No 1, the first engine to pull a passenger train on a public railway, has been in Darlington. Its owners the National Railway Museum (NRM) wanted to move ...

When Carole King and Gerry Goffin — the married-couple songwriters who cranked out so much solid-gold pop music in the early ’60s — wrote “The Loco-Motion,” they had the idea that Dee ...

says Geoff Shearcroft. He’s contemplating New Hall, the newly opened storage-cum-display facility that his practice, AOC Architecture, has designed for Locomotion, part of the National Railway Museum, ...

The engine designed by George and Robert Stephenson in Newcastle in 1829 will go on display at Locomotion museum in Shildon on Friday. It was moved to allow work to take place at its normal home ...

We focus on playing the Grand Funk hits “I’m Your Captain,” “Closer to Home,” “The Loco-Motion,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “We’re An American Band,” and a few others we ...