Thanks to 3D printing and low cost components, it’s possible to quickly and easily experiment with a variety of robotics mechanism for various use cases. [Paul Gould] has been doing exactly this ...

A research paper by scientists at Tianjin University presented an earthworm-inspired multimodal pneumatic continuous soft ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling ... mechanism that involves rapid contact with the ground, like a quick punch, ...

You’d be wrong, of course, because researchers just invented a way to make snake-like robots slither along the ground, and they did it using a design ... covering for a crawling robot which ...

(B) Schematics of the reverse locomotion of a caterpillar. (C) Snapshots of the crawling robot in one cycle of actuation for reverse locomotion. (D) Snapshots of the crawling robot in one cycle of ...

MIT researchers have developed a tiny hopping robot able to traverse difficult conditions while carrying weights several ...