( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...

It’s difficult to overstate how eager scientists and engineers are to build animal-like robots. Various professionals have been working on everything from fly bots to robo-cheetahs, and the invasion ...

A fox squirrel perched on part of an experiment designed to test its agility and decision-making. Researchers used peanuts to entice the rodents to participate. UC Berkeley photo by Judy Jinn Nearly ...

Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings. Just more YouTube content documenting the crazy antics ...

The acrobatic rodents called fox squirrels learn to leap from branch to branch with a mix of careful calculation and ‘parkour’, according to experiments that had them bounding through a simulated ...

High-speed video of squirrels executing amazing leaps in pursuit of peanuts captures the animals’ innovative solutions to reaching their goal. Video courtesy of Roxanne Makasdjian and Jeremy Snowden, ...

Squirrels' acrobatic leaps across treetops depend on complex split-second calculations and inventive "parkour" maneuvers to stick tricky landings, a new study in the journal Sci... Already a Barron's ...

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Army-funded research on wild squirrels and how they jump at the University of California-Berkley aims to learn how to apply their acrobactic ways to future robot systems. (UC-Berkeley) Those twitchy ...

"Squirrels deciding and learning how to launch and land demonstrates the synergistic roles of biomechanics and cognition in robust gap-crossing strategies." Source: Dariusz Grosa, Pexels, free ...