Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a ...

A detailed guide to the pioneering research undertaken by Kaibo He, highlighting his work in advancing robotics to replicate ...

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 ...

Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 37(3):224-232 Ambike S & Schmiedeler JP (2008) A methodology for implementing the curvature theory approach to path tracking with planar robots, Mechanism and Machine ...

Biomechanics: The body is a mechanical system containing fluid ... that mechanical engineers design and build. Robots: Machines that operate autonomously are used in industrial production, space ...

Based on studies of the biomechanics of squirrel leaps and landings, they have designed a hopping robot that can stick a landing on a narrow perch. The feat, to be reported in the March 19 issue ...