When we first spied Sandia National Laboratories' Precision Urban Hopper Robot back in 2009 it employed combustion-driven pistons to propel it into the air and allow it to clear obstacles. In the same ...

These days, robots come in all shapes and sizes: From man-sized cyborgs capable of getting you a cup of coffee to tiny bots capable of mimicking something as small as a hummingbird. A pint-sized bot ...

One of those odd facts that children learn at school -- how fleas can jump many times their own height -- has now materialized in the form of a new robotic design. We've seen robots designed by ...

Roboticists have successfully colonized air, water and land with their mechanical critters. There are aerial research drones, underwater robotic gliders, robots that can roll and climb stairs. But one ...