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

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 ...

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.

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 robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of ...

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

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

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 ...

A team of biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley wanted to figure out how squirrels do the jump and use the innate ‘braking ...