Moving robots are becoming more and more advanced, from Honda’s astronaut-like Asimo to the dancing Robo Sapien, a perennial favourite of Christmas stockings. But these advances are still fairly ...

Every year after the first rains, I find very small salamanders in our pool, some swimming around, but mostly at the bottom (our yard backs onto San Pablo Creek). I imagine the pool was installed on ...

It was unseasonably warm and unusually quiet during a recent hike at Promised Land State Park. The cloudy skies trapped a layer of humid, warm air, bringing back springtime memories. But the leafless ...

Could the discoveries made from building a 3D-printed, waterproof salamander robot one day help people with severe spinal injuries to walk again? No, this isn’t some The Men Who Stare At Goats-level ...

Salamanders swim with the slippery ease of an eel. But as soon as their toes touch bottom, they switch rapidly to the four-legged gait typical of lizards. Because the critters haven't changed much in ...

A robot salamander created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology supports its developers' theory of how animals made the transition from swimming to walking. The team then built a robot ...

It's yellow, modular, and can both walk and swim: it is Salamander robotica, the fruition of four years of research and one clever theory. Auke Jan Ijspeert of the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

One of the latest robots out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) can mimic the way a real salamander moves, whether on land or in the water. The EPFL scientists call it ...

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