BLACKSBURG — YouTube videos inspired a cheetah tail for robots at Virginia Tech. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi and a small army of graduate students dove down a technological rabbit hole to create a bio-inspired ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

UC Berkeley might be able to claim the title of ‘world’s fastest turning robot‘ and it’s all thanks to an innovation that Mother Nature came up even well before the dinosaurs: a wagging tail. It turns ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Legs folded underneath its body, a dog-shaped robot motors through a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The concept of a robot dog has been around ...

Affectionately described as a “robot pooch,” Vision 60 is officially a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicle (or Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle) or ground drone. Already operating at USAF’s Tyndall ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

If you have met a cat, you’ve probably at some point been amazed by how acrobatic they are. They’re able to reorient themselves effortlessly, even in midair. It turns out that a lot of that twistiness ...

But Long says swimming robots like Madeleine and Preyro have advantages over computer simulations because it is extremely difficult to simulate the interaction between a flexible solid — like an ...