Chris Richards

Biomechanics, robotics, simulation. Coffee. Fascinated by things that unfold quickly such as frogs and Brompton bikes. Lecturer, Royal Vet College, London

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

The Frog Lab @RoyalVetCollege - a 2 minute introduction to what we do.
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[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

3/3 I'll post simulation videos in a couple days. Here's an example:
0.2, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 40, 219, 90, 107
How it works: a kinematics algorithm solves for joint motions moving the frog at the given angle, but at a speed limited by muscle mass. Long story...

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

1/3 Happy Thanksgiving! It's time again for the annual frog simulation jumping contest. Here's how to play: reply to this tweet with your own frog design. Try to see if yours can jump farthest! Results will be posted in next few days.

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

2/3 Design your frog by tweeting 8 numbers, separated by commas. First 4 are relative bone lengths, summing to 1. 5th number is jump angle degrees (0=horizontal, 90=vertical), last 3 are for rgb color (if you like, see https://t.co/VfOhvqJlGk for color ideas)

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@davidcblackburn short answer, YES! Let's do it!

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

Hello Frog Fans! It's almost time again for the annual Thanksgiving Day Frog Simulation Jubilee! I've improved the simulation since last year. Early next week I will tweet the instructions on how to enter the contest and "design your frog" - stay tuned!

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@cclemente4 @RoyalVetCollege @LauraBPorro @AmberJCollings Thanks!!!

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

The Frog Lab @RoyalVetCollege - a 2 minute introduction to what we do.
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[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@KinesKing @RoyalVetCollege Thanks!! 🙏

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

Postdoc opportunity (2yr) @RoyalVetCollege in musculoskeletal modelling to study the effects of age on limb coordination.

https://t.co/g1U8IXQQKH

[Taylor Dick @TaylorJMDick]

Humans falling in holes, our recent study on how the human lower limb responds to rapid unexpected perturbations @gregory_sawicki @LakshKumarP @GT_PoWeR_Lab @UQMedicine @royalsociety #biomechanics https://t.co/2koIdjqQ1m

[Taylor Dick @TaylorJMDick]

great post doc opportunity!

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

#3facts5scientists
1. Music tastes span from opera to Phil Collins (or vice versa)
2. Didn’t get into grad school 1st try
3. Been building robots since I was 10

5 scientists (unrelated to above facts)
@gregory_sawicki @LauraBPorro @FlammangLab @TaylorJMDick @cclemente4

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@cclemente4 You should start a video blog or YouTube channel with these videos

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@cclemente4 @amtcastle Yep, Star Wars for motors, lord of the rings for muscle lever systems, BSG for cameras and classical composers for computers. Vader has been decommissioned but I’ve just revived Yoda.

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

@Fishguy_FHL No, unfortunately couldn’t make it, but am “listening” through Twitter. Lots of amazing work is being presented, thanks for all of the live tweeting

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

Yay! So proud of my first phd student @AmberJCollings who did spectacular work in frog #biomechanics which has helped expand and strengthen the scope of Team Frog's research at @RoyalVetCollege.

[Dr Amber Jade Collings @AmberJCollings]

Was super amazing to catch up and celebrate with my second supervisor @birdBiomech too 😍

A big thank you goes to Monica and my primary supervisor @PropPhysiology for helping me get there!

#SML #RVC #Graduation2019

[Chris Richards @PropPhysiology]

Passing it on...
Funded PhD studentships available for UK/EU* students through the LIDo-dtp programme for interdisciplinary biology research. Deadline 26 June, '19. *resident in UK for 3 yrs.
https://t.co/gAXsxYncbR

[Dr. Kristen Crandell @kriscrandell]

I was happy to contribute to this article that illuminates some of the problems international scientists face. Science highly values international mobility, but often the burdens of how that's accomplished get left for the individual scientist to bear, alone.