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 ...

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

Humanoid robots that walk around on two legs have been attracting attention and money, but they are still a long way off from ...

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 ...

Two small propellers allow the robot to twist in midair, but all the motive force comes from the single leg. Part of the challenge lies in the fact that the only opportunity to exert any real ...

"For instance, humans swing their arms to counteract the angular momentum generated by their legs during ... the robot as it moves, while also generating lift to partly support the robot's weight ...

An API upgrade made to the Boston Dynamics Spot allows the robot to run three times faster than it's capable as it rolls out ...