(Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump from one branch-like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birds and trees go together like peanut butter and jelly, as branches provide places to perch, and the leaves give birds cover. So, if you do not have natural places for birds to rest, adding a ...

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

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 from one ...

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

For the first time, the Department of Natural Resources is slapping a special fishing regulation on perch caught on Mille Lacs Lake, lowering the daily bag limit from 20 to five. The reduced limit ...

Regardless of whether you agree with his decisions during and after this year’s legislative session, it’s always reassuring ...