if you compare animals to robots at the whole system level, in terms of movement, animals are amazing. And robots have yet to ...

if you compare animals to robots at the whole system level, in terms of movement, animals are amazing—and robots have yet to catch up.” Optimistically, for the field of robotics, the ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

Check out these amazing bionic robots developed by China's Northeastern University -- a mechanical turtle and lobster that move just like real sea ...

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible to induce animals to act as if they were robotic. Or mostly robotic, at ...