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 ...

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 ...

A Greene County covered bridge and Ohio literature programs joined tax breaks for the NFL and robot squirrels on this year’s list of the 100 “most wasteful government spending projects” released this ...

Researchers used a large language model to take complex human language commands and translate them into a form a robot dog could understand. Reading time 2 minutes Google researchers may have finally ...

(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 ...

Researchers and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot named Salto, inspired by squirrels, that can jump from branch to branch and land on narrow perches while ...

Robot critters also can help researchers discover how far a species can be pushed beyond its survival instincts. Researchers at the Free University of Brussels, for instance, found that fake roaches ...

AMHERST, Mass. -- One gray squirrel, its bushy tail twitching, barked a warning as another scrounged for food nearby. It was an ordinary spring day at Hampshire College, except that the rodent issuing ...

Although President Obama thinks there’s nothing left to be cut from the federal budget, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul begs to differ. The Republican was discussing the impact of the sequestration on the ...

Topline: Dr. Frankenstein was able to bring his monster back to life using just rusty tools and a cramped workshop. Researchers in California needed taxpayer funding from the National Science ...

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Rocky, a mechanical "robo-squirrel," at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., is shown on duty on the campus Tuesday, April 15, 2008. In back is Sarah Partan, Hampshire assistant professor of animal ...