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Most animals use different forms of locomotion to move through a varied environment. This allows them to adapt to find food, escape threats or migrate, while minimising their energetic cost of locomotion. To do so, animals must use the same locomotor modules to perform specialised tasks that often have opposed requirements. For example, an animal diving into the water to hunt requires a structure that is as lightweight as possible for efficient flight, whilst still being structurally strong when impacting the water’s surface.
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We use the term MAV in this book to refer to small, sub-kilogram, unmanned aerial robots. This term is widely used in the literature to cover robots that are technically much bigger than the micrometer scale.
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Zufferey, R., Siddall, R., Armanini, S.F., Kovac, M. (2022). Breaking the Surface. In: Between Sea and Sky: Aerial Aquatic Locomotion in Miniature Robots. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89575-4_1
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