I love me a bio-inspired robot that pulls off challenging feats by taking cues from the natural world. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) researchers have now shown off the one-legged Salto bot ...

This kind of dynamic stability is a trait that squirrels share with one of our favorite robots: Salto. Salto is a jumper too, ...

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design 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 ...

Engineers have long designed robots that crawl, swim, fly, and even slither like snakes. But no robot has ever matched the ...

Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

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A hopping robot tries to match the agility of squirrels. Can it stick to the landings like nature's parkour experts? Read more!

Squirrels move nimbly by leaping through the treetops. A robot from the University of California wants to do the same.

Heavy cloud cover and courtship may extend activity throughout the day. Gray squirrels are arboreal acrobats, climbing, running and leaping about trees, their sharp claws gaining a purchase on ...