Engineers developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design, which they say could also help in search and rescue missions during ...

Salto the robot is acting a little squirrelly. The jumping bot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe ­­­— just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch. It’s the first time scientists ...

Researchers and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot named Salto, inspired by squirrels, that can jump from branch to branch and land on narrow perches while ...

With a tiny computer brain, inertial sensors, and a counter-balance, the SALTO robot navigates on one powerful leaping leg. (Kelsey D. Atherton / YouTube Screenshot) Outside of fiction, robots are ...