Sentences with word «quadrupeds»

A study by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) conducted in 2006 showed that a simple bodyweight quadruped hip extension activated more gluteus maximus and medius muscle than a max squat.

This robot is the fastest in its category, namely in normalized speed for small quadruped robots under 30Kg.

It goes on to say under the entry for «rhinoceros» that: «a genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose.

Face away from the wall and lower to the floor in quadruped position (hands and knees), aligning your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips.

Nuzzo et al. (2008) compared the deadlift and back squat (with 50 — 100 % of 1RM) to the prone quadruped arm - and - leg lift, supine hip extension and hip thrust performed on a swiss ball.

Or indeed, in quadruped form, a forest path.

By today's standards they look hilariously inaccurate: the Iguanodon is little more than a fat alligator, while the Megalosaurus looks like one of No Man's Sky's misshapen dog - like quadrupeds.

And there's already a new species of quadrupeds on the rise: A vanguard of four - legged military robots, BigDogs and WildCats (developed by Labs such as BostonDynamics), can already be watched practicing their jumps on YouTube.

These tips can smooth the socialization process and help your pup get along with other quadrupeds and people alike:

Among them is a smaller quadruped robot that comes to life and makes its way toward the exit flanked by the original, much bigger Spot.

On the other hand, a flawlessly executed quadruped row promotes optimal depression, retraction and medial rotation of the scapula, improves arm and grip mechanics and spinal rigidity, and teaches strong muscle - mind connection with the lats.

In the meantime, older fossils (but not as complete as Lucy) have been found, with strong indications they walked upright and were not quadrupeds, knuckle walking as do our closest relatives, gorillas and chimps.

The total value of apartment transactions has nearly quadruped over that stretch, rising from $ 23 billion in 2002 to $ 51 billion in 2004 and $ 90 billion last year.

He who through greatness hath become sole monarch Of all the moving world that breathes and slumbers; Who ruleth over quadrupeds and bipeds, — Who is the god to worship with oblation?

This is a great intro to assuming the hands - and - knees position because it's easier to sustain a semi-upright quadruped position than it is a fully horizontal one.

Respondent maintains that it is a cat, that is, a well - known carnivorous quadruped which has long been domesticated.

Horváth's team collected nearly 1,000 images of walking quadrupeds from books and museum websites, dividing them into two groups: works created before Muybridge's 1887 studies and those created after 1887.

The domestic sheep (Ovis aries), the most common species of the sheep genus (Ovis), is a woolly ruminant quadruped which probably descends from the wild mouflon of south - central and south - west Asia.

Led by George Whitesides, a renowned Harvard chemist and materials scientist as well as member of Scientific American's Board of Advisers, the group's best - known robot is a squishy X-shaped quadruped made from elastomers — stretchy plastics — and controlled by pumping compressed air through its network of internal channels.

Most quadrupeds push with their back legs and use their front legs as brakes.

In another context, you probably wouldn't see as a still - life John James Audubon's «Pennant's Marten» (1814), an extraordinarily lively image of a fierce, growling, furry quadruped rendered with exquisite refinement in watercolor, pen and ink and pencil.

Largely ignored were the great majority of scientists who think the Turkish quadrupeds mean precisely nothing about human evolution.

Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), the «cheetah - cub robot,» a small - size quadruped prototype robot, is described in an article appearing today in the International Journal of Robotics Research.

To analyse walking illustrations of all possible quadruped species we used the easy and reliable method developed by Horvath and co-workers [18], [19].

Over the next four and a half years, Farr nearly quadruped Emerson's Asia revenues.

After identifying Teleocrater as an ancestor along the avian lineage, the authors could group it with several other difficult - to - place animals, including Dongusuchus and Spondylosoma, naming a new group of long - necked, carnivorous quadrupeds dubbed Aphanosauria (hidden or obscure lizards, in Greek).

Paleontologists also realized the animals were not dedicated quadrupeds.

And if we evolved from a monkeylike quadruped,» as Lovejoy's analysis of Ardi's hands suggests, «then all our extensive anatomy related to suspension and hanging would have evolved in parallel to the great apes.

There is strong evidence that the ancestors of the cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) were long - limbed terrestrial quadrupeds, and changes to the musculature and the skeleton eventually led to limbs become more like paddles.

And my dog — well, it doesn't quite look like an amoeba, but it's a diagrammatic quadruped.

Although quadrupeds also have dangling testicles, theirs are protected by powerful hind legs.

Boston Dynamics, which is now part of Google, built Spot for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as proof they could create a nimbler, quieter version of the company's previous quadrupeds.

«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.

A handful of other robotics researchers — including those at Japan's Kyoto Institute of Technology — have over the past decade been developing quadruped robots, but none appear to have BigDog's high levels of adaptability, balance and perseverance nor LittleDog's intelligence and awareness.

The new quadruped will have «a higher level of maturity in terms of system and autonomous operation,» Raibert says.

(Expectant quadrupeds can resort to their hands for balance.)

The current quadruped robot prototype is tethered to an open source board and an air pump.

A comparison of prehistoric and more recent art reveals that early humans had a better grasp of quadruped locomotion.

Poramate Manoonpong, Dennis Goldschmidt, Florentin Wörgötter, Alexander Kovalev, Lars Heepe, Stanislav Gorb Motor Control Adaptation to Changes in Robot Body Dynamics for a Compliant Quadruped Robot.

Glute Bridge / Hip Thrust: 3 sets of 15 — 20 reps Quadruped Hip Extension: 3 sets of 30 reps each leg Lying Side Clam: 2 sets of 20 reps each leg Lying Hip Abduction: 2 sets of 20 reps each leg Bird Dog: 3 sets of 30 reps each leg

Quadruped refers to being on all fours.

Consider it a free lesson it street savoir - faire from New York's coolest quadruped.

He was the first scientist to propose that a prehistoric ice age had gripped the earth, and that extinct giant tropical quadrupeds such as mastodons had been wiped out by a worldwide Siberian freeze.

Carrying this tradition forward will land Salt Lake County's quadruped mayors among the renowned pet mayoral ranks of the greats like Lucy Lou, the dog mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and feline Mayor Stubbs, actual mayor of his nine - hundred person hamlet in Talkeetna, Alaska for fifteen years running.

As you can imagine, this natural position for humans but unnatural position for quadrupeds tends to wind up and artificially tighten the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in the area of the hip.

Mount the large hornless, cushion footed, long necked quadruped and set off on the shady trail to the 40 Mile beach and return.