Christofer Clemente

@ARIA_research So excited to be a part of this!

Meet our Creators + discover what they’re working on 👇 link.aria.org.uk/srb-creators-x (4/4)

From kangaroo-inspired robot locomotion to versatile bioactuators, we’re excited to share the first opportunity seeds we’re funding in Smarter Robot Bodies 📣 (1/4)

🎃🕷️Just in time for Halloween: A really cool short movie about our spider sleep research @UniKonstanz @zukunftskolleg by @lgroskin for @sciam 🕷️💤 Thanks Luke! Totally worth the wait ;) youtube.com/watch?v=BTccp_…

How fast are modern day human compared with our ancestors? This @ConversationEDU article explores speed and body size in human predictive simulations based on our @NatureComms paper with @TaylorJMDick @FriedlDeGroote theconversation.com/not-too-big-no… v

New in @ESAEcology: In eastern Washington, cougars, wolves, & ungulate prey adjust their broad-scale movement based on long-term habitat use rather than predator hunting strategies doi.org/10.1002/ecy.44… With #OpenData & code in @datadryad & @ZENODO_ORG @S_Bassing

Our latest paper intersected archeology and biomechanics - a first look at striking biomechanics of some Australian Aboriginal weapons @Griffith_Health x @ARCHE_Griffith @pzcld @DavidJohnSaxby1 @BradleyCornish3

As our fish-like ancestors evolved, developing necks, the nerve got stuck in its pathway. Evolution couldn't re-route the tangled wire without unplugging it It's sub-optimal design no engineer would ever make. It developed in tiny gradient steps, yielding only a local optimum

Short write up using #NatureComms blog post feature on our paper exploring the limits of speed and size. With @TaylorJMDick and @FriedlDeGroote communities.springernature.com/posts/of-dwarf…

Human musculoskeletal simulations not only predict the optimal body mass for speed in humans 🏃, but also all mammals 🐆! @cclemente4 et al suggest mass-speed represents general rules & not the result of phylogenetic or other ecological factors | nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ever wondered what a dwarf racing a giant would look like? Our (@TaylorJMDick and @FriedlDeGroote) new paper simulated humans moving at masses from 0.1 kg to 900 kg. We use them to understand the biomechanical limits to speed as mass increases. youtu.be/CcLKcLCADnw?si…

@madfuzz82 @NicholasWuNZ yeah, but this way i could justify building a giant human and make it race against a tiny human....

@NicholasWuNZ @cclemente4 Great Scott! Is almost as though all life were constrained by generalisable physico-chemical laws! ... It is cool research though.

Our new paper is out in @NatureComms We used predictive musculoskeletal simulations based on @OpenSimSU models, scaled in size from mice to elephants, and reveal mechanistic links between speed, posture and energetics rdcu.be/dVZIy @cclemente4 @FriedlDeGroote @UQ_News

Domestication of dogs changed not only their facial muscle morphology but also how these muscles function. Dogs have ~100% fast-twitch muscle fibers, enabling quick facial expression movements while wolves have less than 50%. By @Anne_M_Burrows et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

@NeuromechanicsL @Wasatchquatch

Hey we are hiring! Would love to have some colleagues at Emory in BME working in sensorimotor systems and related technologies that cross the basic/clinical divide!

A nice write up by @usceduau on our fun project on the advantage of muscle pennation with changes in muscle shape. With Robert Rockenfeller, Michael Gunther and @TaylorJMDick usc.edu.au/about/unisc-ne…

New paper->Rethinking the physiological cross-sectional area of skeletal muscle reveals the mechanical advantage of pennation doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… ..we use geometric models to highlight the mech. advantage of a pennate design & clear the air on some PCSA confusion @cclemente4

Scientists have found Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, have iron coated teeth. @AaronLeBlanc6 (@kingsdentistry) says the study gives us clues to how dinosaurs like the T-rex may have ripped apart their prey #ScienceatKings Read more⬇️ theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Up close and personal with the iron-coated teeth of the Komodo dragon <3

Komodo dragons have iron -coated teeth!! It was amazing to be part of this team led by @AaronLeBlanc6 - showing that this iron coat in komodo (and in other varanid lizards!) might help keep these teeth sharp @usceduau nature.com/articles/s4155…

Moa didn't go #extinct all at the same time in NZ, but they did all go #extinct in places close together. These places are also the final holdouts for today's threatened birds, kakapo, takahe and many kiwi species. Want to know more? Take a read 👇 nature.com/articles/s4155…