Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of ...

Leaping, quadrupedalism, or brachiation dominate these profiles. Primates clearly need to climb upward in trees but relative to all other movement types, vertical climbing is not frequent relative ...

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...