A Greene County covered bridge and Ohio literature programs joined tax breaks for the NFL and robot squirrels on this year’s list of the 100 “most wasteful government spending projects” released this ...

Top photo: A free-ranging squirrel leaps from one branch to a branch instrumented to measure force. (Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap ...

Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel approach enabling robots to ...

Topline: Dr. Frankenstein was able to bring his monster back to life using just rusty tools and a cramped workshop. Researchers in California needed taxpayer funding from the National Science ...

Rocky, a mechanical "robo-squirrel," at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., is shown on duty on the campus Tuesday, April 15, 2008. In back is Sarah Partan, Hampshire assistant professor of animal ...

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