BERKELEY — Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage ...

A group of biologists and engineers have been inspired by lizards and dinosaurs to design robots with tails that will help them to remain upright when they stumble during leaps. A group of biologists ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new style of robot that has been inspired by leaping lizards. The team’s research indicated that modern-day leaping lizards use ...

For some time now, scientists have assumed that dinosaurs' tails didn't simply drag on the group behind them, but were instead held out to serve as a counterweight for the giant reptiles' heavy front ...

University of California, Berkeley, Scientists and students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found that swinging the tail upward is the key to ...