A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed piece of equipment. The four-legged machine - called Spot - reactivated a crane ...

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across ...

A new robot created by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Notre Dame<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Inspired by the agility of leaping squirrels, researchers have designed a robot that can mimic “nature’s best athletes”.