Q: How can squirrels jump so far? And how do they hold on to tree limbs as they gambol about? A: Squirrels have evolved with several anatomical adaptations that help them with their acrobatics. While ...
Researchers and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot named Salto, inspired by squirrels, that can jump from branch to branch and land on narrow perches while ...
When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study published in the journal Science, a team of biologists and biomechanics researchers from UC Berkeley outlines how ...
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 ...
Top photo: A free-ranging squirrel leaps from one branch to a branch instrumented to measure force. (Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump ...
Here we are in the dead of winter with nighttime temperatures falling into single digits, and despite this I am seeing signs that the breeding season for wildlife has begun. On Jan. 15, Mary Alice and ...