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

A team of biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley wanted to figure out how squirrels do the jump and use the innate ‘braking ...

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

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

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

UC Berkeley researchers modified a one-legged robot, called Salto, to jump from one branch-like perch to another using principles derived from studies of leaping squirrels.

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 ...

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 ...

Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of ...

After its spotlight-stealing stroll across Yankee Stadium's outfield wall, the squirrel slipped and ran off Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...