A four-legged robot now walks like a living, breathing creature—no rehearsals, no manual tweaks. Researchers at the ...

A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find ...

As of 2000, pythons have established a breeding population across South Florida, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

How Scientists Are Using Robotic Animals to Learn About Real Ones Biomimetic bots can teach researchers a lot about how creatures interact in the natural world Bob Holmes, Knowable November 8, 2021 ...

If you passed by the Three Bears General Store in Pigeon Forge, you may have noticed a unique bear outside. PETA is targeting ...

The male fiddler crabs use their one oversized claw to attract females, waving it with a frantic energy outside their burrows ...

Burmese pythons have become one of Florida’s most destructive invasive species, devastating native wildlife in the Everglades ...

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created “Wavy Dave,” an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could wave back and forth. It was placed in the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the ...

A couple months ago, we were excited about robotic chickens; now, Sega Toys announced that they’re coming out with three new robotic animal types for their highly popular Dream Pet series: a ...

And robots offer one big advantage over live animals: They do what researchers tell them to do, in exactly the same way, time after time. That gives scientists a degree of control over their ...