This kind of dynamic stability is a trait that squirrels share with one of our favorite robots: Salto. Salto is a jumper too, ...

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

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 ...

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

Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

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

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming to change that with groundbreaking work in robotic design, as detailed in the journal Science Robotics. This article explores the ...

Squirrels could do that, no problem ... "If you think about trying to jump to a point -- maybe you're doing something like playing hopscotch and you want to land your feet in a certain spot -- you ...

Salto is a small, one-legged robot developed by a team of biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley. This robot mimics how ...