A surprising amount of technology is inspired by animals. Raptors packing Sidewinder missiles shoot down the occasional suspicious balloon. Scientists deploy robotic sloths to collect vital ecological ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor Kyu-Jin Cho (Director of the Soft Robotics Research Center) from the Department of Mechanical ...

Device can grab like a hand, crawl across the floor, or jump high, just by pulling on a simple muscle. I'd never thought of these capabilities as being the result of the same properties -- but now I ...