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the act or power of moving from place to place
studying the locomotion of spiders Walking is one form of locomotion.
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This allows the robots to autonomously change their locomotion strategy while swimming, either individually or in a cooperative function.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
This compact powerhouse offers not one, not two, but three distinct modes of locomotion – walking, rolling and pivoting – all in one sleek package.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
That includes basic locomotion, which is accomplished by typing any of a number of short words scattered at key points in your surroundings in order to automatically walk to that point.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2025
Transitioning from one gravity to another, such as from earth's gravity to weightlessness, can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion, and may cause space motion sickness, according to NASA.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
This compact powerhouse offers not one, not two, but three distinct modes of locomotion – walking, rolling and pivoting – all in one sleek package.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
That includes basic locomotion, which is accomplished by typing any of a number of short words scattered at key points in your surroundings in order to automatically walk to that point.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2025
Transitioning from one gravity to another, such as from earth's gravity to weightlessness, can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion, and may cause space motion sickness, according to NASA.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Locomotion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locomotion. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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