POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

BLACKSBURG — YouTube videos inspired a cheetah tail for robots at Virginia Tech. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi and a small army of graduate students dove down a technological rabbit hole to create a bio-inspired ...

UC Berkeley might be able to claim the title of ‘world’s fastest turning robot‘ and it’s all thanks to an innovation that Mother Nature came up even well before the dinosaurs: a wagging tail. It turns ...

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

While researching AI robotics I came across this interesting robotic human tail developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan a few years ago. The Arque robotic tail aims to augment human ...

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 ...

STEAM event. Families can engage in activities such as crafting personalized dinosaur tails, witnessing live robot demonstrations, and participating in various STEAM stations designed to make learning ...

Affectionately described as a “robot pooch,” Vision 60 is officially a Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicle (or Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle) or ground drone. Already operating at USAF’s Tyndall ...

If you have met a cat, you’ve probably at some point been amazed by how acrobatic they are. They’re able to reorient themselves effortlessly, even in midair. It turns out that a lot of that twistiness ...