Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a ...

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap ...

Top photo: A free-ranging squirrel leaps from one branch to a branch instrumented to measure force. (Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump ...