Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel approach enabling robots to ...

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

Engineers developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design, which they say could also help in search and rescue missions during ...

(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 ...