Did you envision a giant machine assembling cars, Data from "Star Trek," C-3PO from "Star Wars" or "The Terminator"? Most of us would probably think of something massive -- or at least human size. But ...

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 ...

MIT has announced the development of self-assembling robotic cubes. The cubes can climb over and around each other, jump in the air, and roll across the ground. The robots are now able to communicate ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech 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 ...

Georgia Tech engineers have developed a soft robot capable of hopping forward and backward, inspired by the movements of a thin, body-bending parasitic worm. The study was published in Science ...

A new jumping device could help humans spring across other planets while exploring. Researchers say they have created a device that can out-jump any animal or mechanical machine either on Earth or in ...

For years we all assumed that robots and artificial creatures had to be made of metal and other rigid materials. But there’s now a movement to create soft, squishy bots that use unorthodox power ...