She now has help from a gait dog, which was specially trained to meet her needs in a program called Canine Partners for Life. "Cookie, a 90-pound Labrador retriever, was trained for two years ...

Researchers decided to explore the gait abnormalities found in Swedish pugs to figure out how common an issue it is and to determine whether certain factors, such as a dog’s age, can impact its ...

Shafiee and co-authors Guillaume Bellegarda and BioRobotics Lab head Auke Ijspeert were therefore interested in a new hypothesis for why gait transitions occur: viability, or fall avoidance.