Most animals run fairly quickly and faster than most humans. But can a robot run faster than most living beings?

Animals inspired robots consistently filament outperform their organic inspirations despite often having better individual components. Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Lab, CU Boulder ...

Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with ‘food’ could narrow the gap.

The pogo-stick-like bot’s nickname stands for Saltatorial Agile Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles, for its skill borrowed from ...

Scientists from City St George’s, University of London created a terrifyingly realistic android head to determine whether chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from robots. Remarkably, it turns out they can, ...

Many animals use flapping as a means of propulsion, and robots equipped with flappers can also propel themselves efficiently. But the flappers of the animal kingdom—in this case fish and insects ...

Robots Probe Evolution of Aquatic Animals. When the first land animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago, their powerful tails may have been more important than scientists ...

The OroBot. In the late 2010s, John Nyakatura was working to study the gait of an extinct creature called Orobates pabsti.The four-limbed animal, which prowled Earth 280 million years ago, is ...

The versatile robot is able to navigate complex environments, maintain stability on uneven ground, and recover after a fall — all without the use of extra-perceptive sensors. Topics Robotics , Video ...