Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a ...

Justin Yim describes the success of a monopedal robot, Salto, in leaping from branch to branch thanks to principles of balance control learned from the study of leaping squirrels.