Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

Sharpshooters are large leafhopper insects in the scientific family Cicadellidae ... They also have powerful back legs, allowing them to jump and escape predators quickly. This comes in handy ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...