Imagine having a robotic pet that walks, listens, and interacts—one that you build from scratch. The SunFounder PiDog Robot ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to ...

Hasbro is bringing a line of new Transformers Cyberworld figures to the New York Toy Fair, including the heavily-armed ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

Via computer simulations and experiments to control the length of the linkages in the furcula as well as the energy stored in them, the team found that the robot could jump some 1.4 m horizontally, or ...

Mackey Arena isn't necessarily known as a pet-friendly venue for Purdue basketball fans, but Friday night it will play host ...

Harvard engineers have developed a micro-robot based on the springtail insect that is capable of leaping 23 times its body length.

The simplicity of the springtail’s jumping mechanism intrigued the researchers. “Its furcula consists of just two or three ...

Researchers have designed a robotic material that transforms like a living organism. Inspired by embryos, these disk-shaped ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

Harvard researchers have developed a small, agile robot capable of walking and jumping, inspired by hopping hexapods like ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...