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 ...

But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot designers to discover how squirrels do it, and used what they learned to design a one-legged ...

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, and it’s about as non-prehensile as it’s possible to get, having just one ...

Inspired by the agility of leaping squirrels, researchers have designed a robot that can mimic “nature’s best athletes”.

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

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 ...

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

Squirrels are among the most popular animals because they are so cute, and probably also because they can move smoothly through the treetops. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley ...

In the Western Ghats, the vibrant Indian Giant Malabar Squirrel leaps through treetops, aiding seed dispersal and forest ...

Inspired by squirrels, scientists built a robot that lands on narrow perches—advancing agile robotics for disasters and space ...